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FW: question regarding id command


I have missed word "not" in my previous email.
" Why the output of id -Gn and id -Gn Sgupta is NOT same , assuming that I
am logged in as Sgupta "


It looks like id  -Gn prints all the groups (Primary, Secondary), if  I put
user name like id -Gn SGupta , it only prints the Primary Group.

Is it true ? According to docmentaion of id command, it should print all
(Primary, Secondary) groups. 
Please let me know, if I am wrong ?

Thanks
Sanjay

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> When I issue the id command as follows
> $id -Gn
> 
> it gives me the following output
> 
> Domain Users Everyone DBAs Epylon Employees Neptune DBA Operations
> Administrators Users ORA_DBA
> 
> $ id -Gn SGupta
> 
> It gives only the following output
> Domain Users
> 
> $ whoami
> SGupta
> 
> My current user is SGupta, so when I include my username in id commands, 
> I do not see all groups which Sgupta belongs to.
> 
> Why the output of id _Gn and id -Gn Sgupta is same , assuming that I am
> logged in as Sgupta
> 
> **Note**, The above commands gives me the expected result in Sun OS.
> 
> Any thoughts,
> 
> Thanks
> Sanjay 
> 
> 
> 

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