1.\" Copyright (c) 1983 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)groups.1 6.5 (Berkeley) 7/24/91 33.\" 34.Dd July 24, 1991 35.Dt GROUPS 1 36.Os BSD 4.2 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm groups 39.Nd show group memberships 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm groups 42.Op Ar user 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm groups 46command shows the groups to which you or the optionally specified 47user belong. 48Each user belongs to a group specified in the password file 49.Pa /etc/passwd 50and possibly to other groups as specified in the file 51.Pa /etc/group . 52If you do not own a file but belong to the group which it is owned 53by then you are granted group access to the file. 54.Pp 55When a new file is created it is given 56the group of the containing directory. 57.Sh SEE ALSO 58.Xr group 5 , 59.Xr setgroups 2 60.Sh FILES 61.Bl -tag -width /etc/passwd -compact 62.It Pa /etc/passwd 63.It Pa /etc/group 64.El 65.Sh HISTORY 66The 67.Nm group 68command 69appeared in 70.Bx 4.2 . 71.Sh BUGS 72More groups should be allowed. 73