Is there a command to show the the member(s) of a group?

Akhran · 02-13-2006, 04:08 AM

'groups username' shows the group(s) the user belongs to. Is there a command to show the member(s) of a group?

Thanks !

muha · 02-13-2006, 04:26 AM

apropos group
gave me: man group
which points to:
cat /etc/group
It doesn't really give all info though, it does not say that i'm part of the users group which is weird ..

scuzzman · 02-13-2006, 04:32 AM

Code:

grep group_name /etc/group

eg:

Code:

[scuzzy@slackdell /home/scuzzy]$ grep users /etc/group
users::100:scuzzy,nobody
[scuzzy@slackdell /home/scuzzy]$ grep music /etc/group
music:x:105:scuzzy
[scuzzy@slackdell /home/scuzzy]$

jschiwal · 02-13-2006, 04:34 AM

grep '<group-name>' /etc/group

The members of a group are listed after the third colon.

In a script, you could do something like:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sed -n "/${1}/s/.*:.*:.*://p" /etc/group

Set the executable bit, and copy it to your $HOME/bin/. Now you have the command you want. A comma seperated list of the members is printed.