viewing all group memberships??

Local-IT-DudeLocal-IT-Dude Member Posts: 16 ■□□□□□□□□□
Is there an easy way to find out every group that an account is a member of? I want to include every group that the user is a member of, even ones where they are a member because the group they are in is a member.

I swear there was a way to do this but Im not finding it now.

Thank you

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  • willhi1979willhi1979 Member Posts: 191
    Is there an easy way to find out every group that an account is a member of? I want to include every group that the user is a member of, even ones where they are a member because the group they are in is a member.

    I swear there was a way to do this but Im not finding it now.

    Thank you

    Try running gpresult from the command line and see if that helps.
  • xenodamusxenodamus Member Posts: 758
    How about:

    dsget user <user DN> -memberof

    You would run that from a command line and enter the user's distinguished name in the brackets. I think that may do it.
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  • MrAgentMrAgent Member Posts: 1,310 ■■■■■■■■□□
    gpresult should show all group membership.
  • DevilsbaneDevilsbane Member Posts: 4,214 ■■■■■■■■□□
    xenodamus wrote: »
    How about:

    dsget user <user DN> -memberof

    You would run that from a command line and enter the user's distinguished name in the brackets. I think that may do it.

    -memberof only gives the explicit memberships. Sounds like he wants both the -memberof switch along with the -expand one. You will also likely want to redirect the output to a text file since there will probably be many groups.

    dsget user "CN=Mike Jones,OU=myUsers,DC=Techexams,DC=Net" -memberof -expand > Mike.txt
    Decide what to be and go be it.
  • undomielundomiel Member Posts: 2,818
    Or to make things a bit easier on yourself to avoid looking up and typing in the DN you could do:

    dsquery user -name "User Name" | dsget user -memberof -expand
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  • xenodamusxenodamus Member Posts: 758
    When I tried to use -memberof and -expand together I think it gave me a list of every object in AD. icon_eek.gif

    It was 527 pages of DNs, anyway

    Not sure what went wrong there. This is what I was trying:

    dsget user <user DN> -memberof -expand
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