Unix administration - Re: Need script to extract from /etc/security/lastlog -> list of

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Re: Need script to extract from /etc/security/lastlog -> list of

Patrick Begou

2004-12-16, 7:45 pm

Tom Brehony wrote:
> The subject lines says it all. I am looking for a script (ideally Korn
> Shell)
> to extract from /etc/security/lastlog a list of users and their last login
> time
> in human readable format.
>
> I have seen PERL scripts to convert the Unix time in seconds to a human
> readable form, but I do not have PERL installed on the AIX 4.2 box
> I am using and I am not familiar with PERL anyway and would not be
> able to modify the script to do what I need.
>
> Anyone have something that will do this?
>
> Tom.
>
>

If using /etc/passwd you can do

for user in `cat /etc/passwd |cut -d : -f 1 |sort`
do
last $user|head -1
done

If using NIS you can do

for user in `ypcat passwd |cut -d : -f 1 |sort`
do
last $user|head -1
done

patrick