What Is My User Group Linux?
Contents What Group Is My User in Linux? There Are Multiple Ways to Find out the Groups a User Belongs To. the Primary User’s Group Is Stored in the...
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What group is my user in Linux?
There are multiple ways to find out the groups a user belongs to. The primary user’s group is stored in the /etc/passwd file and the supplementary groups, if any, are listed in the /etc/group file. One way to find the user’s groups is to list the contents of those files using cat , less or grep .
How do I find my groups in Linux?
The following seven commands will help you find out which groups a user belongs to in Linux.
- groups: Show All Members of a Group.
- id: Print user and group information for the specified username.
- lid or libuser-lid: It display user’s groups or group’s users.
- getent: Get entries from Name Service Switch libraries.
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