- About id : To print real and effective user and group IDs
- It comes from “coreutils-8.4” package.
Examples:
1. To print the current user ID
| $ id |
2. To ge the all the identification information of the a user
| $ id -a $ id -a mike |
3. To print only the security context of the user
| $ id -Z $ id –context |
4. To print only the effective group ID
| $ id -g $ id –group |
5. To print all the group IDs
| $ id -G $ id –groups |
6. To print the name instead of number
| $ id -n $ id –name |
7. To print the real ID instead of effective ID
$ id -r
$ id –real
8. To print only the effective ID
| $ id -u $ id –user |
9. To get the help for ID command
| $ id –help |
10. To get the version of the ID command
| $ id — |
