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Rich
Asked: 2011-02-24 02:29:58 +0800 CST

List users in all specified unix groups

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Is there an easy way to get a list of users who are in all specified groups?

For example, if I have the following users:

fred - rainbow, dell
jane - hp
zippy - rainbow, hp, dell
george - hp, dell
bungle - rainbow, hp, dell

I would like something like this:

[me@box ~]$ magic "dell,hp"
zippy, george, bungle

ie returning the users who are in both dell and hp.

If it is multiple steps that is fine, though if it's not really possible without having to resort to lots of Bash black magic, and it is quicker to do it in a RE-enabled text editor that is also fine.

I'm running on RHEL4 if that makes any difference.

unix user-management users groups

4 Answers

  1. This works for two groups at a time:

    getent group dell hp | cut -d: -f 4 | tr , '\n' | sort | uniq -d | sed ':a;$s/\n/, /g;N;ba'

    Put it in a function with some modifications and it will handle any number of groups:

    grmagic () {
    getent group "$@" | 
        cut -d: -f 4 | 
        tr , '\n' | 
        sort | 
        uniq -dc | 
        grep "^[[:blank:]]*$#" |
        awk '{all = all d $3; d = ", "} END {print all}'
}

    Run it:

    $ grmagic dell hp
zippy, george, bungle
$ grmagic dell hp rainbow
zippy, bungle

    A function consisting mostly of an AWK script:

    grmagic () {
    getent group "$@" |
    awk -F: -v "c=$#" '{
            split($4, a, ","); 
            for (i in a) n[a[i]]++
        } 
        END { 
            for (i in n) 
            if (n[i] == c) {
                printf d i; d=", "
            }; 
            printf "\n"  }'
}
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  2. Best Answer

    I don't known any tool doing this but it is easy to script.

    At first get the list of the users on the system, then run groups on each and at the end, grep on the desired groups :

    getent passwd | sed 's/:.*$//g' | \
    while read user; do groups $user; done | \
    grep group1 | grep group2
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  3. Small python script:

    #!/usr/bin/python

import subprocess,sys

group={}

for user in sys.argv[1:]:
    group[user] = set(subprocess.Popen("id -nG %s"%user, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True).stdout.read().split())

for g in group[sys.argv[1]] & group[sys.argv[2]]:
    print g

    Test:

    # id user1
uid=1001(user1) gid=1001(user1) groups=1001(user1),1004(us1),1005(dell)
# id user2
uid=1002(user2) gid=1002(user2) groups=1002(user2),1004(us1),1005(dell)
# ./test.py user1 user2
dell
us1
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  4. A bash solution that takes more than 1 user per line and print only unique groups. Normal output is one grop per line, use -c to get the output separated by commas.

    #!/bin/bash
\unalias -a

if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
    echo "Need at least one user" 1>&2
fi

RESULT=''
COMMA=0
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
    if [ $1 == '-c' ]
    then
        COMMA=1
    else
        RESULT="$RESULT $(id -Gn $1)"
    fi
    shift
done
if [ $COMMA -eq 0 ]
then
    echo $RESULT |tr ' ' '\n'| sort -u
else
    echo $RESULT |tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u |tr '\n' ', ' |sed 's/.$//g'
    echo
fi

    Example output:

    # ./magic.sh coredump mongodb
audio
cdrom
coredump
dialout
floppy
lpadmin
mongodb
netdev
nogroup
plugdev
powerdev
video

    Using -c:

    # ./magic.sh -c coredump mongodb
audio,cdrom,coredump,dialout,floppy,lpadmin,mongodb,netdev,nogroup,plugdev,powerdev,video
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