Newbie has to find username in system... 1

[Sky14657]

Yeah I'm a stupid Windows-Administrator with the following problem: The UID 915 is in use, but I can't find the corresponding username. Unfortunately we have to much people fooling around in our system and the few unix-commands I know are not helpful in this case...

Thx in advance

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Everybody has the right to be stupid -- but some people abuse the privilege. (a quote from Stalin - and I am one of the abusers, sometimes...)
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Experienced in the IT-chaos since 1984...

 

[hoinz]

Look at file /etc/passwd
There will be a line like this:
username:xyz:915:...

 

[Sky14657]

Many thanks. That was nearly to simple to be true...

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Everybody has the right to be stupid -- but some people abuse the privilege. (a quote from Stalin - and I am one of the abusers, sometimes...)
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Experienced in the IT-chaos since 1984...

 

[KenCunningham]

grep 915 /etc/passwd

should produce the above.

 

[meetramana]

you can also try

ypcat passwd | grep -i <search string>

in your case

ypcat passwd | grep -i 915