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You mean like "cat /etc/passwd|grep foouser" ?
And finger does not require a daemon LOCALY.

Gilad.

Erez Doron wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> does anybody knows of a unix command that
> checks if a there is such a user on the system ?
> 
> i meen that I'll ask if there is a username 'yossi' or 'moshe'
> on this host, and I'll get an answer
> 
> ( do not tell me 'finger', this requires a daemon )
> 
> regards
> Erez.

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