NAME

id — return user identity

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

By default id prints the current ‘uid’, ‘gid’ and ‘groups’ of the current session. If user is specifies then it reads from the passwd(5) and group(5) entries.

OPTIONS

-G

Output only groups (effective, real, and supplementary) separated by spaces.

-g

Output only the effective group ID.

-u

Output only the effective user ID.

-n

Output names instead of IDs.

-r

Output the real IDs instead of effective IDs.

EXIT STATUS

The id utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

group(5), passwd(5)

STANDARDS

id should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>