users(1)

users1

List current users

Usage

users

Overview

The users utility lists the login names of the users currently on the system, in sorted order, space separated, on a single line.

Files

/var/run/utx.active

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 38 times.

  1. 2.0.5–2.2.2
  2. 2.2.5–3.5.1
  3. 4.0–4.3
  4. 4.4–4.6.2
  5. 4.7–4.11
  6. 5.0–6.3
  7. 6.4
  8. 7.0
  9. 7.1
  10. 7.2
  11. 7.3
  12. 7.4
  13. 8.0
  14. 8.1
  15. 8.2
  16. 8.3
  17. 8.4
  18. 9.0
  19. 9.1
  20. 9.2
  21. 9.3
  22. 10.0
  23. 10.1
  24. 10.2
  25. 10.3
  26. 10.4
  27. 11.0
  28. 11.1
  29. 11.2
  30. 11.3
  31. 11.4
  32. 12.0
  33. 12.1
  34. 12.2
  35. 12.3
  36. 12.4
  37. 13.0–13.2
  38. 13.3–14.5
  39. 15.0–16.0

History

The users command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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