Re: Find user accounts with uid > 500

["William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:48 +0000, Jim Wight wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 04:27 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 02:56 -0600, Sean Carolan wrote:
> > > Hi all:
> > > 
> > > I'm doing an audit of some Linux machines, and have used this awk
> > > one-liner to find accounts with uid > 499:
> > > 
> > > awk -F: '{if ($3 > 499) print $0}' < /etc/passwd
> > > 
> > > It works great if you run it on a host directly, but if I try to ssh
> > > to a remote host and run the command it fails:
> > > 
> > ssh servername awk -F: "'{if (\$3 > 499) print \$0}'" < /etc/passwd
> 
> ssh servername awk -F: "'{if (\$3 > 499) print \$0}' < /etc/passwd"
> 
> otherwise '< /etc/passwd' happens on the client.
> 
> Jim

DRAT! Need to get first cup-o-java! I even remembered to watch out for
this before I typed my reply!

Better idea: go back to bed!

> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill

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