how do I find out the uid of a user?

dfuse · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 395 Location: Belgium

Hey,
I need to know the userid of some users, usually I got them from the /etc/shadow file,but now all of a sudden they seem scrambled, for example:

nico:$1$HM2Ry5IG$FwKpiYnJX8UDslWzpItqx1:12152:0:99999:7:::

Is there another way to find out the uid of a user and is it normal that all of a sudden they are scrambled? It's only for the users I use, users like apache, distcc are not affected by this sudden change.

Arno · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject:

/etc/shadow contains encrypted passwords.
/etc/passwd contains user and groud IDs. You can grep this file for the user:

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

you can also just type "id user"

dfuse · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 395 Location: Belgium

aaaaaaaaah id user, that's useful, thanks alot!