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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 .
To display the members of a group, or the groups to which a user belongs, use the pts membership command. To display the groups that a user or group owns, use the pts listowned command. To display general information about a user or group, including its name, AFS ID, creator, and owner, use the pts examine command.
Every user on Linux belongs to a primary group. A user's primary group is usually the group that is recorded in your Linux system's /etc/passwd file. When a Linux user logs into their system, the primary group is usually the default group associated with the logged in account.
Hit Windows+R, type “lusrmgr. msc” into the Run box, and then hit Enter. In the “Local Users and Groups” window, select the “Users” folder, and then double-click the user account you want to look at.
groups
or
groups user
This one shows the user's uid as well as all the groups (with their gids) they belong to
id userid
On Linux/OS X/Unix to display the groups to which you (or the optionally specified user) belong, use:
id -Gn [user]
which is equivalent to groups [user] utility which has been obsoleted on Unix.
On OS X/Unix, the command id -p [user] is suggested for normal interactive.
Explanation on the parameters:
-G,--groups- print all group IDs
-n,--name- print a name instead of a number, for-ugG
-p- Make the output human-readable.
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