groups Command

Commands Reference, Volume 2

groups Command

Purpose

Displays group membership.

Syntax

groups [ User ]

Description

The groups command without a User parameter writes to standard output the group membership of the current process. If the User parameter is specified, then the group membership for that User is displayed.

The groups command does not run successfully if the specified user does not exist or if it cannot read the user or group information.

Security

Access Control: This program should be installed as a normal user program in the Trusted Computing Base.

Examples

To display your current group membership, enter:

groups

Files

/usr/bin/groups	Contains the groups command
/usr/ucb/groups	Symbolic link to the groups command
/etc/group	Group file; contains group IDs
/etc/ogroup	Previous version of the group file
/etc/passwd	Password file; contains user IDs
/etc/opasswd	Previous version of the password file.

Related Information

The getty command, login command, setgroups command, su command, tsm command.