Azure-cli: List the current OS users of Linux VM

[shehzadshaikh]

Hi,

I want to add the multiple users on my Linux VM on Azure cloud, i could find the instruction on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/vm/user?view=azure-cli-latest, however strangely enough there's no such command to list the current OS users.

My requirement is to create and delete users, hence, i would like to pull the list of existing OS users and then perform some comparison before deleting or updating them.

Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

[tjprescott]

I don't believe this information is returned by the service, but I'll defer to @adewaleo for further clarification.

[yugangw-msft]

There is no Azure API to give you the list, rather you have to do it through linux commands executed in the VM. For scripting, you can consider ssh [email protected] 'cat /etc/passwd' if the credentials used by SSH are pre-configured in the client machine

[yugangw-msft]

Closing as this is a by-design

[adewaleo]

Thanks @yugangw-msft @tjprescott . I was going to look into this, which was why I hadn't responded