LOGINS(1)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1

💅 LOGINS 💅

okok so bestie, gather round, because logins is genuinely one of those tiny little utilities that ate and left no crumbs. It's the logins utility from section 1 of the manual — a general command — and its whole personality is: display account information. That's it. That's the gig. ✨

No cap, it's like a little filter-and-peek machine for user and system accounts, and once you get the flags down you'll be obsessed. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

logins [-admopstux] [-g groups] [-l logins]

literally just pick your flags and go, iykyk 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The logins utility displays information about user and system accounts. cute, simple, iconic. 👑

Here are all the options, bestie — and yes, there are a lot, but you're gonna slay them all:

  • -a — Display information about the password change and account expiration times for each account. (the "when does this expire" tea ☕)
  • -d — Select accounts with duplicate UIDs. like, two accounts sharing one ID? messy. this finds them. 💀
  • -g groups — Select accounts that are members of the specified groups. If multiple group names are specified, they must be separated with commas. (comma, comma, comma — not spaces, bestie, commas 💅)
  • -l logins — Select accounts matching the specified login names. If multiple names are specified, they must be separated with commas. (same deal — commas only 🎀)
  • -m — Show information about secondary groups.
  • -o — Display the information for each account on a single line of colon-separated fields. (one line per account, colon-separated — very main character energy, very parseable 🌈)
  • -p — Select accounts with no password. 🙈
  • -s — Select system accounts. These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs below 1000, plus the “nobody” account (UID 65534).
  • -t — Sort selected accounts by name rather than by UID. (name order > UID order, imo 💖)
  • -u — Select user accounts. These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs above 1000, except the “nobody” account (UID 65534). (so -s and -u are the two halves of the world, and nobody lives in system-land, periodt ⭐)
  • -x — Display information about each account's home directory and shell. (where they live + what they run 🐚)
ok so important bit — if multiple selection options are specified, all accounts matching any of the selection criteria will be displayed. it's a union, not an intersection, bestie. 🔥
and if no selection options are specified, all accounts will be displayed. literally all of them. the whole roster. 🦋

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read those when you're done here, they're the supporting cast and they understood the assignment too 🧚

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

The logins utility appeared in FreeBSD 4.10. vintage! iconic! it's giving legacy but make it cute 💜

🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

The logins utility was written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> based on similar utilities in other operating systems. ty for your service, king 🫡💖

and that's the whole page, bestie — no crumbs left. this one's from Debian, dated March 6, 2004, and it's the LOGINS(1) manual page. mwah 💋✨🌸

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