>>>/etc/shadow
>>>The passwords are encrypted.
>>>/etc/group
>>>contains the names of the defined groups.
>>>Root access required to modify, but I wouldn't do it manually,
>>>I would go through the user and group programs.
>>>JLK
>>>
>>>>I need the location of the text file that contains the user list.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance
>>>>Terry
>>
>>Thanks for your help but we failed.
>>
>>We were trying to spam all the users by using an alias mapped to the text file. Then by using send mail to send a message to the alias we would
>>get all users. These files were not however in the correct format. We were hoping for a comma delimited file, alas no luck. Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks terry
>
>well, you could write a shell script that uses grep to pick the names from the shadow file and
>create a text file with the format you wish. How many user names are you trying to capture?
>JLK
Thanks
We will try that. We have been "distracted" by another "hot" project so it may be a little while until we can try this.