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Re: Q
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Erez Doron wrote:
>Hi
>
>does anybody knows of a unix command that
>checks if a there is such a user on the system ?
locally or remotely?
locally it's:
cat /etc/passwd | grep user
Remotely it's unexistant unless system administrator is so kind to provide
some clues. You may try to use SMTP:
VRFY user
though this is not reliable, or some hack like this. But in general, it is
considered security hole to have such facility on an system, unless there
are reasons to provide all the Net with your user list.
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- Q
- From: Erez Doron <erez@savan.com>