Administration Reference

pts membership

Purpose

Displays the membership list for a user or group

Synopsis

pts membership -nameorid <user or group name or id>⁺  [-cell <cell name>]  
               [-noauth]  [-force]  [-help]
   
pts m -na <user or group name or id>⁺  [-c <cell name>]  [-no]  [-f]  [-h]
   
pts groups -na <user or group name or id>⁺  [-c <cell name>]
           [-no] [-f]  [-h]
   
pts g -na <user or group name or id>⁺  [-c <cell name>]  [-no]  [-f]  [-h]

Description

The pts membership command lists the groups to which each user or machine specified by the -nameorid argument belongs, or lists the users and machines that belong to each group specified by the -nameorid argument.

It is not possible to list the members of the system:anyuser or system:authuser groups, and they do not appear in the list of groups to which a user belongs.

To add users or machine to groups, use the pts adduser command; to remove them, use the pts removeuser command.

Options

-nameorid: Specifies the name or AFS UID of each user entry, the IP address (complete or wildcard-style) or AFS UID of each machine entry, or the name or AFS GID of each group, for which to list group membership. It is acceptable to mix users, machines, and groups on the same command line, as well as names and IDs. Precede the GID of each group with a hyphen to indicate that it is negative.
-cell: Names the cell in which to run the command. For more details, see the introductory pts reference page.
-noauth: Assigns the unprivileged identity anonymous to the issuer. For more details, see the introductory pts reference page.
-force: Enables the command to continue executing as far as possible when errors or other problems occur, rather than halting execution at the first error.
-help: Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

Output

For each user and machine, the output begins with the following header line, followed by a list of the groups to which the user or machine belongs:

   Groups name (id: AFS UID) is a member of:

For each group, the output begins with the following header line, followed by a list of the users and machines who belong to the group:

   Members of group_name (id: AFS GID) are:

Examples

The following example lists the groups to which the user pat belongs and the members of the group smith:friends. Note that third privacy flag for the pat entry was changed from the default hyphen to enable a non-administrative user to obtain this listing.

   % pts membership pat smith:friends
   Groups pat (id: 1144) is a member of:
     smith:friends
     staff
     johnson:project-team
   Members of smith:friends (id: -562) are:
     pat
     terry
     jones
     richard
     thompson

Privilege Required

The required privilege depends on the setting of the third privacy flag in the Protection Database entry of each user or group indicated by the -nameorid argument (use the pts examine command to display the flags):

If it is the hyphen and the -nameorid argument specifies a user, only the associated user and members of the system:administrators group can list the groups to which the user belongs.
If it is the hyphen and the -nameorid argument specifies a machine, only the members of the system:administrators group can list the groups to which the machine belongs.
If it is the hyphen and the -nameorid argument specifies a group, only the owner of the group and members of the system:administrators group can list the members of the group.
If it is lowercase m and the -nameorid argument specifies a user or machine entry, the meaning is equivalent to the hyphen.
If it is lowercase m and the -nameorid argument specifies a group, members of the group can also list the other members.
If it is uppercase M, anyone who can access the cell's database server machines can list group memberships.

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