getting users IDs list

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You could also just use the Netinfo application and browse to it.

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Previous message from Rodney Dyer on 3/3/04 at 11:58 PM -0600
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>On other *nix systems they are found in the /etc folder.  OS X has the
>proper files there, but user land stuff is not included in either the groups
>or passwd files.  They are stored in data files in the netinfo db
>(/var/db/netinfo/local.nidb/Status.XXXX where XXXX is some number).  These
>are binary files and you must have root (or sudo) priv to get to them.  If
>you can get to them, it is easy to see what is inside.  Just fire up your
>favorite hex editory and, for example, I can see that my the user rodney is
>uid 501 (starts at position 0x38), gid 20 (at 0x7b), in /Users/rodney, shell
>is bin/tcsh (never got around to changing that one), my password hint (in
>plain text!), my shadow password, my login picture, my ....   You get the
>idea.  If you want to use this information, you must either 1) have root
>priv or 2) use netinfo.
>
>R