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Old 01-09-2006
Finding the group to which a user belongs
Is there any command to find to which group u ser belongs
# 2  
Old 01-09-2006
use

/etc/passwd and
/etc/group files

Code:
grep -w `awk -F":" ' /d63433/ { print $4}' /etc/passwd`  /etc/group | 
awk -F":" '{print "GroupName:  " $1, "GroupId:  " $3}'

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Old 01-09-2006
Try...
Code:
id -Gn username

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Old 01-09-2006
groups username
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