search for username in Users list?

I've now tested it, and the story is as follows: basically it works!!

It is sure rough round the edges, but I was, for the first time able to search on a string and it would find all usernames with that string in. Great!!

A few things to note:

• the download is a bit weird, because the module owner hasn't yet made it a "proper" module, but when you download the code file, it does unpack to a normal module structure
• there is missing the essential "user_search.info" file. You will need to create such a file and put the following contents in it:
  

  name = User search
  description = User search
  core = 6.x
  

This file goes of course with the other files for this module.

I'm sure you're right with what you say, but...

Can you please explain in more detail, to me and other rather-more-novice admins, exactly what the Views setup is. Thanks!

Thank you for your help, this was just what I needed. A perfect solution without module cluttering.

And if you add also the field "User: edit link" (I'm not sure it's the right name, my Drupal is localized to German), you can even edit the user you were looking for right away just like in site user search.
As for the search, the browser search will do fine.

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'user_admin_view';
$view->description = 'User admin page';
$view->tag = 'User admin page';
$view->base_table = 'users';
$view->core = 6;
$view->api_version = '2';
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Standards', 'default');
$handler->override_option('relationships', array(
'content_profile_rel' => array(
'id' => 'content_profile_rel',
'table' => 'users',
'field' => 'content_profile_rel',
),
));
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
'picture' => array(
'label' => 'Bild',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'absolute' => 0,
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'rel' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'target' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'html' => 0,
'strip_tags' => 0,
),
'empty' => '',
'hide_empty' => 0,
'empty_zero' => 0,
'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
'imagecache_preset' => 'user-s',
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'picture',
'table' => 'users',
'field' => 'picture',
'override' => array(
'button' => 'Übersteuern',
),
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'name' => array(
'label' => 'Name',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'absolute' => 0,
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'rel' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'target' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'html' => 0,
'strip_tags' => 0,
),
'empty' => '',
'hide_empty' => 0,
'empty_zero' => 0,
'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
'link_to_user' => 1,
'overwrite_anonymous' => 0,
'anonymous_text' => '',
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'name',
'table' => 'users',
'field' => 'name',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'uid' => array(
'label' => 'Uid',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'absolute' => 0,
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'rel' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'target' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'html' => 0,
'strip_tags' => 0,
),
'empty' => '',
'hide_empty' => 0,
'empty_zero' => 0,
'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
'link_to_user' => 1,
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'uid',
'table' => 'users',
'field' => 'uid',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'rid' => array(
'label' => 'Rollen',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'absolute' => 0,
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'rel' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'target' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'html' => 0,
'strip_tags' => 0,
),
'empty' => '',
'hide_empty' => 0,
'empty_zero' => 0,
'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
'type' => 'separator',
'separator' => ', ',
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'rid',
'table' => 'users_roles',
'field' => 'rid',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'groups' => array(
'label' => 'User\'s groups',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => FALSE,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => FALSE,
'path' => '',
'absolute' => '',
'alt' => '',
'rel' => '',
'link_class' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'target' => '',
'trim' => FALSE,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => TRUE,
'ellipsis' => TRUE,
'strip_tags' => FALSE,
'html' => FALSE,
),
'empty' => '',
'hide_empty' => 0,
'empty_zero' => 0,
'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
'type' => 'separator',
'separator' => ', ',
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'groups',
'table' => 'og_uid',
'field' => 'groups',
'override' => array(
'button' => 'Übersteuern',
),
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'edit_node' => array(
'label' => '',
'alter' => array(
'alter_text' => 0,
'text' => '',
'make_link' => 0,
'path' => '',
'absolute' => 0,
'link_class' => '',
'alt' => '',
'rel' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'suffix' => '',
'target' => '',
'help' => '',
'trim' => 0,
'max_length' => '',
'word_boundary' => 1,
'ellipsis' => 1,
'html' => 0,
'strip_tags' => 0,
),
'empty' => '',
'hide_empty' => 0,
'empty_zero' => 0,
'hide_alter_empty' => 1,
'text' => '',
'exclude' => 0,
'id' => 'edit_node',
'table' => 'users',
'field' => 'edit_node',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
));
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
'name2' => array(
'id' => 'name2',
'table' => 'users',
'field' => 'name2',
'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
'validate_user_roles' => array(
2 => 0,
3 => 0,
6 => 0,
4 => 0,
5 => 0,
),
'relationship' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'breadcrumb' => '',
'default_action' => 'ignore',
'wildcard' => '',
'wildcard_substitution' => '',
'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
'default_argument_type' => '',
'default_taxonomy_tid_term_page' => 0,
'default_taxonomy_tid_node' => 0,
'default_taxonomy_tid_limit' => 0,
'default_taxonomy_tid_vids' => array(
3 => 0,
1 => 0,
2 => 0,
5 => 0,
4 => 0,
8 => 0,
6 => 0,
),
'default_argument_user' => 0,
'default_argument_fixed' => '',
'default_argument_php' => '',
'validate_type' => 'user',
'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
'blog' => 0,
'event' => 0,
'feed_ical' => 0,
'feed_ical_item' => 0,
'group' => 0,
'profile' => 0,
'exhibit' => 0,
'biblio' => 0,
'focusgroup' => 0,
'organisation' => 0,
'project' => 0,
'panel' => 0,
'folder' => 0,
'book' => 0,
),
'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
3 => 0,
1 => 0,
2 => 0,
5 => 0,
4 => 0,
8 => 0,
6 => 0,
),
'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
'validate_argument_is_member' => '0',
'validate_argument_group_node_type' => array(
'group' => 0,
'focusgroup' => 0,
'project' => 0,
),
'validate_argument_php' => '',
'validate_fail' => 'ignore',
),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
'name' => array(
'operator' => 'contains',
'value' => '',
'group' => '0',
'exposed' => TRUE,
'expose' => array(
'use_operator' => 0,
'operator' => 'name_op',
'identifier' => 'name',
'label' => 'Benutzer: User raw name',
'remember' => 1,
),
'case' => 1,
'id' => 'name',
'table' => 'users',
'field' => 'name',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'rid' => array(
'operator' => 'or',
'value' => array(),
'group' => '0',
'exposed' => TRUE,
'expose' => array(
'use_operator' => 0,
'operator' => 'rid_op',
'identifier' => 'rid',
'label' => 'Benutzer: Rollen',
'optional' => 1,
'single' => 1,
'remember' => 0,
'reduce' => 0,
),
'id' => 'rid',
'table' => 'users_roles',
'field' => 'rid',
'relationship' => 'none',
'reduce_duplicates' => 0,
),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
'type' => 'role',
'role' => array(
3 => 3,
6 => 6,
),
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 100);
$handler->override_option('use_pager', '1');
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'table');
$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
'grouping' => '',
'override' => 1,
'sticky' => 0,
'order' => 'asc',
'summary' => '',
'columns' => array(
'name' => 'name',
'uid' => 'uid',
'rid' => 'rid',
'edit_node' => 'edit_node',
'delete_node' => 'delete_node',
),
'info' => array(
'name' => array(
'sortable' => 0,
'separator' => '',
),
'uid' => array(
'sortable' => 0,
'separator' => '',
),
'rid' => array(
'separator' => '',
),
'edit_node' => array(
'separator' => '',
),
'delete_node' => array(
'separator' => '',
),
),
'default' => '-1',
));
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Seite', 'page_1');
$handler->override_option('path', 'admin/userlist');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
'type' => 'normal',
'title' => 'View and update Users',
'description' => 'View and update Users',
'weight' => '20',
'name' => 'admin',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
'name' => 'navigation',
));
$translatables['user_admin_view'] = array(
t('Seite'),
t('Standards'),
);

This is great advice. I really needed to add this to my site; and being a relative novice drupal administrator, it should be added that in Step 2, you need to check the box to "expose" the filter. When this was not in the instructions and the views comments seem to warn one about exposing the filter, but if it is not exposed, you do not get to input a search string. Exposing the filter allows the user to search for any string in a user name, as long as other settings are correct. Thanks for posting this views recipe for searching for a user!