man pages section 1: User Commands

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

groups(1B)

Name

groups - display a user's group memberships

Synopsis

/usr/ucb/groups [user]...

Description

With no arguments, groups displays the groups to which you belong; else it displays the groups to which the user belongs. Each user belongs to a group specified in the password file /etc/passwd and possibly to other groups as specified in the file /etc/group . If you do not own a file but belong to the group which it is owned by then you are granted group access to the file.

Files

/etc/passwd

/etc/group

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
compatibility/ucb

See also

getgroups(2), attributes(5)

Notes

This command is obsolete and will be removed in a future release of Oracle Solaris. See groups(1) for an alternate implementation of this command.