NAME
id - print user identity
SYNOPSIS
id [OPTION]... [USERNAME]
DESCRIPTION
Print information for USERNAME, or the current user.
- -a
- ignore, for compatibility with other versions
- -Z, --context
- print only the security context of the current process
- -g, --group
- print only the effective group ID
- -G, --groups
- print all group IDs
- -n, --name
- print a name instead of a number, for -ugG
- -r, --real
- print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -ugG
- -u, --user
- print only the effective user ID
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified
information.
AUTHOR
Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for id is maintained
as a Texinfo manual. If the info and id programs are
properly installed at your site, the command
- info id
should give you access to the complete manual.