id


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 context
-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 (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License licence GPL. 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.

id 5.97 January 2007 ID(1)