finding group of a user 2

[philipose]

Unix gurus,
Is it possible for a non root user to find the groups another user belongs to? Any help will be helpful.

Regards
Philipose

 

[mrn]

pg /etc/group

or

id <username>

Mike

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[columb]

awk -F: '$0 ~ uname {print $1}' uname=<user name> /etc/group

will work on most, if not all, flavours of Unix. Note that it will list all groups, not just the primary group.

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Columb Healy

 

[p5wizard]

on AIX:

lsuser -a pgrp groups <username>


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[philipose]

For some reason columbs method did not work for me (AIX 5.2). Maybe I am doing something stupid. But the other approaches worked like a charm.
philipose