Listing non-root users with shell

Anarch157a — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:00:00 GMT

Listing non-root users

This is a simple Bash script to list all non-root and non-system users in Linux. Those users are determined by two settings, UID_MIN and UID_MAX, found on the /etc/login.defs file.

#!/bin/bash -
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE: lista-users.sh
#
#   DESCRIPTION:
#
#        AUTHOR: Nerdeiro da Silva <a n a r c h 1 5 7 a  at  n i n j a z u m b i . c o m>
#       CREATED: 01/08/2023 14:14:18
#      REVISION:  0.01
#       LICENSE: GNU GPL 2.X (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html)
#===============================================================================

set -o nounset                                  # Treat unset variables as an error

# Get lowest and highest UID from login.defs
export min_uid=$( awk '/^UID_MIN/{print $2}' /etc/login.defs )
export max_uid=$( awk '/^UID_MAX/{print $2}' /etc/login.defs )

# Use Awk expresisons to list only users between those limits
USERS=( $(awk -v min=${min_uid} -v max=${max_uid} -F: '$3 >= min && $3 <= max { print $1}' /etc/passwd ) )

echo "Users :: ${USERS[@]}"
echo
# Example for loop to do something for each user
for U in ${USERS[@]}; do
    USR_DIR=$(awk -F: -v usr=${U} '$1 == usr {print $6}' /etc/passwd)
    if [[ -d ${USR_DIR} ]]; then
        echo "User: $U; Directory: $USR_DIR"
    fi
done

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