user_info

Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 07 March 2008
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NAME

user_info - print user information

SYNOPSIS

edrc/bin/user_info [ -h ]

user_info [ -u username ][ -c configfile ][ -R ]

user_info -F FIELDNAME [ -u username ][ -c configfile ]

user_info -L

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/edrc

DESCRIPTION

The user_info command is used to display all information for a given user. With this command a single interface is given to query all permissions granted to a user. Therefore it is not needed to query each file that represent a certain permission (passwd, ftpusers, ...) separately.

OPTIONS

''

When invoking user_info without an option, all information/permissions of a user are printed. If the root user starts the user_info command, all permissions are printed, if a non-root user uses user_info only the permissions that are readable by that user are printed. Therefore user_info does not add an extra security level, all information that would be possible to be read by a user accessing the information directly (as viewing the /etc/passwd file) are accessible thru user_info, too.

-h

usage message.

-n username

The user whose permissions to display.

-R

Print the complete user record (all fields) in FIELDNAME='value' format. This output is intended to be used for further data processing when there is a need to compute all fields of a user. This is faster then accessing all fields sequentially using the -F option. To display all possible fields, use the -L

-F FIELDNAME

Query the value for the given FIELDNAME.

-L

Print the complete list of all available fields including a short description of the field.

-c configfile

Specify a configfile deviating from the default edrc/etc/user_info.cfg.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

2

operating system is not supported, yet. See osid(3) if you get this error.

4

usage printed.

6

the configuration file user_info.cfg does not exist.

11

temporary directory could not be claimed or created in /tmp. Check the system temporary directory /tmp if you get this error, it is an indicator of system intrusion.

FILES

etc/user_info.cfg

configuration file of user_info, see user_info.cfg(4) for more information.

EXAMPLES

NOTES

BUGS

If a non-root user issues " user_info -u username -F FIELDNAME " and the FIELDNAME is a field where the calling user has no access to the information (as to the encrypted password) user_info returns an empty string without informing, that the calling user has no permission to view the value of that field.

user_info is currently completely implemented for HP-UX only.

AUTHOR

user_info was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see edrc/doc/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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