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Displaying information about group memberships for local users

You can display information about which local groups that a local user belongs to. You can use this information to determine what access the user should have to files and folders. This information can be useful in determining what access rights the user should have to files and folders or when troubleshooting file access issues.

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You can customize the command to display only the information that you want to see.
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Display local user membership information for a specified local uservserver cifs users-and-groups local-user show-membership -user-name user_name
Display local user membership information for the local group of which this local user is a membervserver cifs users-and-groups local-user show-membership -membership group_name
Display user membership information for local users that are associated with a specified storage virtual machine (SVM)vserver cifs users-and-groups local-user show-membership -vserver vserver_name
Display detailed information for all local users on a specified SVMvserver cifs users-and-groups local-user show-membership -instance ‑vserver vserver_name

Example

The following example displays the membership information for all local users on SVM vs1; user CIFS_SERVER\Administrator is a member of the BUILTIN\Administrators group, and CIFS_SERVER\sue is a member of CIFS_SERVER\g1 group:

cluster1::> vserver cifs users-and-groups local-user show-membership -vserver vs1
Vserver User Name Membership
---------- ---------------------------- ------------------------
vs1 CIFS_SERVER\Administrator BUILTIN\Administrators
CIFS_SERVER\sue CIFS_SERVER\g1