macos community v1.0.0

dscacheutil

gather information, statistics and initiate queries to the Directory Service cache.

📋 Live Preview
dscacheutil
dscacheutil

Sandbox: execFile · Timeout: 30s

Capabilities

discovery.enumerate

Examples

Lookup a user: List the user information

dscacheutil -q user -a name <USER_NAME>

Lookup all users: List all user information

dscacheutil -q user

Detection

TypeRule / Indicator
other No detections at time of publishing

Documentation

dscacheutil does various operations against the Directory Service cache including gathering statistics, initiating lookups, inspection, cache flush, etc. This tool replaces most of the functionality of the lookupd tool previously available in the OS.

References