users(1)

users1

List current users

Usage

users

Overview

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

Files

/var/run/utmp

Releases

61 releases since OpenBSD 2.1; the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.1–2.4
  2. 2.5
  3. 2.6–3.3
  4. 3.4–4.1
  5. 4.2–8.0

History

The users command appeared in 3.0BSD.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.