OSF

NAME

id − Displays the user’s system identity

SYNOPSIS

id

DESCRIPTION

The id command writes a message containing the user and group IDs and corresponding names of the invoking process to standard output.  When effective names and IDs do not match the real ones, the id command writes both. 

EXAMPLES

To display your user and group IDs, enter:

id

Information similar to the following is displayed:

uid=200(thomas)  gid=1(staff)

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands:  logname(1). 

Functions:  getuid(2).