How do I list the members of a group?

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How can I see all the members of a group in Linux?

score 217 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 31 '21 at 05:50

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Use the commands:

getent group groupname

or

getent group groupname | awk -F: '{print $4}' |  tr "," " "

edited Dec 31 '21 at 05:50

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answered May 14 '12 at 13:47

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So to add group, add user to group, change permissions of folder to group, and get all members of group, you would run the following commands respectively: addgroup programmers adduser donato programmers chown -R root:programmers idea-IU-141.1010.3 getent group programmers – Donato Jun 09 '15 at 04:56
chmod -R g+w idea-IU-141.1010.3 – Donato Jun 09 '15 at 05:14
Interesting find, "getent groups" (without any group specified) and "cat /etc/group" both give exactly the same output, at least on my system. – okolnost Oct 04 '16 at 22:43
This answer is not really complete. `members ` probably gives more what the OP is looking for. The difference is explained here [Link](https://askubuntu.com/a/1271766/597223) – RichEarle Aug 19 '22 at 15:04

score 32 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 30 '19 at 16:14

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You can do

members YOUR_GROUP_NAME

and it will list all the users in the group YOUR_GROUP_NAME.

If it's not installed by default:

sudo apt-get install members

edited Oct 30 '19 at 16:14

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answered Dec 10 '15 at 08:53

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where did you find such command? – Jakuje Dec 10 '15 at 09:24
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You may need to install it `sudo apt-get install members` – Ben Holland Dec 21 '15 at 19:40
members is installed by default in Ubuntu 14.04.5 – Janek Bogucki Jul 11 '19 at 13:55
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it was not installed by default in 20.04 Desktop LTS, even after a successful smb and cif-utils installation – Marcelo Scofano Diniz Jan 03 '21 at 17:03

score 19 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 04 '16 at 22:18

One more way to check all the members of a group is by checking the /etc/group file which lists all the groups and its members

Example:

root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:syslog,nikhil
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:
fax:x:21:
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:nikhil
floppy:x:25:
tape:x:26:
sudo:x:27:nikhil
audio:x:29:pulse

The first string (separated by :) specifies the group name and the last string specifies the user added to this group.

How do I list the members of a group?

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