How To See List Of Users In Linux?
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1. To view all users on your system, you can use the ‘cat’ command to view the contents of the /etc/passwd file:
$ cat /etc/passwd
2. To list all users on your system in a user-friendly format, use the ‘getent’ command:
$ getent passwd
3. To view only the usernames of all users on the system, use the ‘cut’ command and pass the username field (the first field) as an argument along with the passwd file:
$ cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
To view a list of users on a Linux system, open a terminal window and type:
1. cat /etc/passwd This command will list all the user accounts on the system.
2. getent passwd This command will display information about all the users on the system in a format similar to the /etc/passwd file.