[SOLVED] ubuntu newbie trying to understand users command

[nbob]

Hello.

When I run the command "users" I get :
"nick nick"

I would think my name would only appear once. I was playing around with useradd so its possible I duplicated myself. Is this output correct, and, if not, how do I get rid of the redundancy?

Thanks in advance.

[yancek]

When I use the "users" command I get my username once. You can get non system users by:

cat /etc/passwd | grep 500*

and might be able to see from that if you have two "nick" users.

[nbob]

Thanks for the help.

When I run "cat /etc/passwd grep 500*" nothing is returned. So I am assuming nothing was found matching 500*.

[coopstah13]

shouldn't grep for uid

grep nick /etc/passwd

[yancek]

When I run "cat /etc/passwd grep 500*" nothing is returned.

You entered it incorrectly. cat /etc/passwd| grep 500*

shouldn't grep for uid

No argument with that, never had to do this, would you happen to know a reason.?
Have you tried coopstahs suggestion?

[coopstah13]

well you could get for uid I suppose, but 500* would only match 500[0-9], 5000[0-9], 5001[0-9], etc

[nbob]

Ok. When I run the command grep /etc/passwd here's what I get:

grep nick /etc/passwd
nick: x:1000:1000:myfullname,,,:/home/nick:/bin/bash

[coopstah13]

i don't know if its a problem anyway

on arch when I run it I have 2 show up as well

[ccooper@ccooper-laptop vpnclient]$ users
ccooper ccooper

[nbob]

Well, I guess if its happening to you too then everything is ok. (I'm running Linuxmint)

Thanks for the help.

take care.

[MikeTbob]

I think what you are seeing is the username and group