dscacheutil

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.

Discovery

Path: /usr/bin/dscacheutil
Author: Ethan Nay
Created: 2023-08-23

Example Use Cases 2

Lookup a user #

List the user information

dscacheutil -q user -a name <USER_NAME>

Discovery T1087.001 bash zsh

Lookup all users #

List all user information

dscacheutil -q user

Discovery T1087.001 bash zsh

Detections

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Resources

macOS/binaries/dscacheutil
dscacheutil man page