I've added an administrator to a group with gpasswd -A. Is there a way to retrieve the list of admins from a group?

You can try this:

or, to be more specific, do this:

Groups can have administrators. This is what I need to know. Which users are administrators of which groups. Not users who are a member of the group administrators, which doesn't exist on my system.

ooh I totally read the original post wrong.

Administrators of a group... I have never heard of such a thing. Groups are groups because users of a group have different permissions than users of other groups. Anyone of a particular group should always have the same permissions.

Now, if you wanted to create an "Administrator" of a group, I would do it this way:

1. Create a group of users who has permissions to do certain things in a certain area.
2. Create another group of users who has those same permissions, but also extended permissions to perform administrative tasks.

Setting up your groups this way takes away the headaches of having to modify user permissions individually; it allows you to modify all permissions at a group level. You never want to individually manage users in a large organization as it requires too much administrative overhead.

Forgive me if I sound like I'm trying to educate you, but as an enterprise-grade systems administrator/network engineer, this is the only efficient way to get the job done.

Thanks for you suggestions. However this is not quite what I'm after.

I want to have group administrators that can add or remove users of their group as they see fit. This can be achived with "gpasswd". Eg:
would make lennon administrator of beatles.

Since this function is built in to *nix, I thought there must be a way to list the admins of a group. The man pages and the Googler are strangely silent concerning this...

EDIT: Just found the answer! The group admins can be seen in /etc/gshadow.
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