How do you list users in a solaris group

gillbates · September 20, 2006, 11:41am

I need to list all users in a group. This is a large unix site running nis+.

reborg · September 20, 2006, 4:00pm

getent group <goupname>

gillbates · September 20, 2006, 5:19pm

That worked great. How do you learn this stuff? Thanks

saainaath · September 21, 2006, 2:25am

Hey gill , you can go for one more command 'logins' which will show you all the users logged into ur system put a grep for the particular group

#logins | grep `cat /etc/group | grep <groupname> | cut -d ':' -f4 `

check out the syntax once am not sure but you will get all the users of a group logged in your system. Bye..

gillbates · September 21, 2006, 12:49pm

I needed the list of all users in a group, not just the ones logged in and reborg's response was exactly what I needed. But I tried the logins cmd for grins and found out that root didn't think I should be running that one.

grial · September 22, 2006, 2:47am

This will also work in other UNIX versions:

grep "^groupname" /etc/group

At least, for local groups...

mdhmi · September 28, 2006, 9:28am

It's good to know both ways as "getent" is not also available.

saainaath gets the UUOC award.