logins(1)

logins1

Display account information

Usage

logins [-admopstux] [-g groups] [-l logins]

Overview

The logins utility displays information about user and system accounts.

The following options are available:

-a

Display information about the password change and account expiration times for each account.

-d

Select accounts with duplicate UIDs.

-g groups

Select accounts that are members of the specified groups. If multiple group names are specified, they must be separated with commas.

-l logins

Select accounts matching the specified login names. If multiple names are specified, they must be separated with commas.

-m

Show information about secondary groups.

-o

Display the information for each account on a single line of colon-separated fields.

-p

Select accounts with no password.

-s

Select system accounts. These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs below 1000, plus the “nobody” account (UID 65534).

-t

Sort selected accounts by name rather than by UID.

-u

Select user accounts. These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs above 1000, except the “nobody” account (UID 65534).

-x

Display information about each account's home directory and shell.

If multiple selection options are specified, all accounts matching any of the selection criteria will be displayed.

If no selection options are specified, all accounts will be displayed.

Releases

52 releases since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 5.3–6.3
  2. 6.4
  3. 7.0
  4. 7.1
  5. 7.2
  6. 7.3
  7. 7.4
  8. 8.0
  9. 8.1
  10. 8.2
  11. 8.3
  12. 8.4
  13. 9.0
  14. 9.1
  15. 9.2
  16. 9.3
  17. 10.0
  18. 10.1
  19. 10.2
  20. 10.3
  21. 10.4
  22. 11.0
  23. 11.1
  24. 11.2
  25. 11.3
  26. 11.4
  27. 12.0
  28. 12.1
  29. 12.2
  30. 12.3
  31. 12.4
  32. 13.0–13.2
  33. 13.3–13.5
  34. 14.0–16.0

History

The logins utility appeared in FreeBSD 4.10.

Authors

The logins utility was written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav ⟨[email protected]⟩ based on similar utilities in other operating systems.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.