ID(1) BSD Reference Manual ID(1)NAMEid - return user identity
SYNOPSISid [user]
id-G [-n] [user]
id-g [-nr] [user]
id-p [user]
id-u [-nr] [user]
DESCRIPTION
The id utility displays the user and group names and numeric IDs, of the
calling process, to the standard output. If the real and effective IDs
are different, both are displayed, otherwise only the real ID is
displayed.
If a user (login name or user ID) is specified, the user and group IDs of
that user are displayed. In this case, the real and effective IDs are as-
sumed to be the same.
The options are as follows:
-G Display the different group IDs (effective, real and supplementa-
ry) as whitespace separated numbers, in no particular order.
-g Display the effective group ID as a number.
-n Display the name of the user or group ID for the -G, -g and -u
options instead of the number. If any of the ID numbers cannot be
mapped into names, the number will be displayed as usual.
-p Make the output human-readable. If the user name returned by
getlogin(2) is different from the login name referenced by the
user ID, the name returned by getlogin(2) is displayed, preceded
by the keyword "login". The user ID as a name is displayed, pre-
ceded by the keyword "uid". If the effective user ID is different
from the real user ID, the real user ID is displayed as a name,
preceded by the keyword "euid". If the effective group ID is dif-
ferent from the real group ID, the real group ID is displayed as
a name, preceded by the keyword "rgid". The list of groups to
which the user belongs is then displayed as names, preceded by
the keyword "groups". Each display is on a separate line.
-r Display the real ID for the -g and -u options instead of the ef-
fective ID.
-u Display the effective user ID as a number.
The id utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
SEE ALSOwho(1)STANDARDS
The id function is expected to conform to IEEE Std 1003.2 ("POSIX.2").
HISTORY
The historic groups(1) command is equivalent to id-Gn [user].
The historic whoami(1) command is equivalent to id-un.
The id command first appeared in 4.4BSD.
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