Solaris™ 7 Reference

groups — Print Group Membership of User

Synopsis

/usr/bin/groups [user... ] 

Description

The groups command prints on standard output the groups to which you or the optionally specified user belong. Each user belongs to a group specified in /etc/passwd and possibly to other groups as specified in /etc/group. Note that /etc/passwd specifies the numerical ID (gid) of the group. The groups command converts gid to the group name in the output.

Examples

The following example shows the groups for users winsor, ray, and des.

castle% groups winsor ray des 
winsor : staff other sysadmin 
ray : staff other sysadmin 
des : staff sysadmin 
castle% 

Files

/etc/passwd	Password file.
/etc/group	Group file.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions ...