10.5: View the full users and groups list

Nov 02, '07 07:30:06AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I noticed that 10.5 doesn't like my GUID anymore (the one with the same name as my username), as apparently 10.5 doesn't use such groups anymore. But I wasn't sure if it was still on the system or not, so I wanted to find a list of GUIDs. But it turns out /Applications » Utilities » NetInfo Manager.app is no more, and all the ni* applications are gone from Terminal as well.

Thus, we must now use the ds* (directory services) applications in Terminal. As of right now, I don't know of any GUI application equivalent of NetInfo manager, only the applications like dscl, dscacheutil, dsenableroot, and so forth. As an example, here's how to print out all the user accounts:

dscacheutil -q group
Hopefully there will be some GUI interface to these tools developed as time goes on.

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