How to list what users are in a group

[Karl-Olov Serrander]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 15:59 +0200, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:39 AM, David Bartmess <dingodave at edingo.net> wrote:
>>>> This is a basic linux question, but how do I find out what users are
>>>> included in a given group?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> getent group <groupname> should do the trick.
>>
>> But that doeas not show users which has groupname as the primary group.
>>
>> Regards
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>> Karl-Olov Serrander m11172.abc.se
>
> But that was not requested by the OP.
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I was trying to make the point that if you have groupname as primary group you are a
member of group groupname, even if you're not listed when doing "getent group <groupname>".

Regards
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Karl-Olov Serrander m11172.abc.se