Re: determine when user account created?

From: Thomas Maier-Komor (maierkom_at_lpr.e-technik.no-spam.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:30:44 +0200

Tony Walton wrote:
> Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
> > sinister wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any way to determine when a user account was first
> >> created?
> >>
> >
> > a good guess might be the creation time of the home directory
>
> How would you propose to find the creation time of the home directory
> (or indeed of any file on a UFS filesystm)?
>

well, I guess you are right that the creation time is not available,
but on the other hand i am not aware that the modification time
is updated for directories after their creation? Am I wrong?

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