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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Get the gid from a group name Post 302413654 by vbe on Friday 16th of April 2010 01:37:33 PM
Old 04-16-2010
I understood "I want GID of a given group name, not from a user Id"...
 

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ldapfinger(1)						      General Commands Manual						     ldapfinger(1)

NAME
ldapfinger - displays a user/machine/group POSIX account's details. SYNOPSIS
ldapfinger [-u|-g|-m][username|machinename|groupname|uid|gid] OPTIONS
[username | machinename | groupname | uid | gid] The name or id of the user, machine (with an ending $) or group you want to display. You may use a wildcard here to look for sub- strings. e.g. 'marty*' or '*mart*'. Acts on current user if nothing is specified. [-u] Look for users only (by default, search the whole directory). [-g] Look for groups only (by default, search the whole directory). [-m] Look for machines only (by default, search the whole directory). SEE ALSO
lsldap(1), ldapid(1), ldapgid(1), ldapscripts(5). AVAILABILITY
The ldapscripts are provided under the GNU General Public License v2 (see COPYING for more details). The latest version of the ldapscripts is available on : http://contribs.martymac.org BUGS
No bug known. February 1, 2007 ldapfinger(1)
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