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Querying Inactive User IDs

An inactive user ID is a user ID that a user has not logged on in a specific amount of time. This amount of time is determined by your CA VM:Director system administrator.

If you are authorized to perform user ID management functions, CA VM:Director provides a number of tools to help you identify and manage inactive user IDs so that you can keep your system resources efficiently.

Use the ULIST command to identify inactive user IDs. The ULIST command shows the status of user ID passwords that have been expired, and how many days have gone by since the user ID’s password was changed. This can tell you if a user ID was temporarily inactive or may be permanently inactive. For instance, a user ID that has changed its expired password within two days of expiration was probably temporarily not used, while a user ID that has an expired password from 86 days ago may really be inactive.

Using this information you can manage these inactive user IDs. For instance, you can put user IDs on HOLD for future inspection or delete them, depending on your policies for handling of inactive user IDs.

Note: For more information about using this command and the contents of its display, see the Reference Guide.