06-18-2011
Why edit groups into sudoers instead of adding users to groups? Let the login system do the legwork.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
groups
groups(1) User Commands groups(1)
NAME
groups - print group membership of user
SYNOPSIS
groups [user]...
DESCRIPTION
The command groups prints on standard output the groups to which you or the optionally specified user belong. Each user belongs to a group
specified in /etc/passwd and possibly to other groups as specified in /etc/group. Note that /etc/passwd specifies the numerical ID (gid)
of the group. The groups command converts gid to the group name in the output.
EXAMPLES
The output takes the following form:
example% groups tester01 tester02
tester01 : staff
tester02 : staff
example%
FILES
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 groups(1)