[OS X TeX] Re: users and groups on Leopard

[Alan Litchfield]

I missed the original query from Bruno, but to view all the users on a  
unix system, type into a Terminal:

 > cat /etc/passwd

You can use the `cut` command to only see one field from the password  
file.

For example, to just see the Unix user names, use the command:

 > cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1

To find out more about cut read its man pages.

Cheers
Alan


On 11/03/2008, at 2:38 PM, Denis Chabot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dear Bruno, I feel bad to give you such a poor answer considering  
> you usually provide us with answers that must take quite a bit of  
> time to prepare and are always very helpful. But here it is anyway.
>
> I recently bought "Take control of permissions in Leopard" at
>
> <http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/leopard-permissions.html>
>
> In fact this is an upgrade, I bought the Tiger version of this pdf  
> book a while back. I am pretty sure the answer is in there, but I  
> did not have time to read it yet and do not foresee a chance to do  
> so for a while yet.
>
> But this is fairly cheap to purchase and the Tiger version was quite  
> well done.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Denis
> Le 08-03-10 à 15:00, macosx-tex-request at email.esm.psu.edu a écrit :
>>
>> Sorry for abusing this list with such an OT question, but after 2
>> hours of search I'm about to give up and try here as last-resort
>> measure before giving up completely.
>>
>> Does anybody know how on Leopard one can access the list of users and
>> groups on a given Mac, together with their numeric equivalents (=
>> ids)? Here I mean not just the account owners on the Mac, but all the
>> users and groups defined by OS X for its various components and
>> services. On Tiger and before (or was it Panther?) it was very easy
>> using /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager. On Leopard:
>>
>> - There's /Applications/Utilities/Directory Utility, but it doesn't
>> seem to do exactly the same job.
>
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