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Chapter 8 Working with Users and Groups 115
4 View the current members of the group by entering the following (replacing
officegroup with the group account’s short name):
> read
officegroup
dscl displays the settings for the group account, similar to the following output where
the group named officegroup has users mchen, ajohnson, and bmiller as members:
apple-generateduid:4B3A5678-E9C1-2EC3-4567-891D234E5678
cn: officegroup
gidNumber: 600
MemberUid: mchen ajohnson bmiller
objectClass: posixGroup apple-group extensibleObject top
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /LDAPv3/ipaddress
GeneratedUID:4B3A5678-E9C1-2EC3-4567-891D234E5678
GroupMembers:2B3A4567-E8C9-9EC2-3456-789D123E4567 1B2A3456-E7C8-9EC1-2345-
678D912E3456 8B9A1234-E5C6-7EC8-9123-456D78E9123
GroupMembership: mchen ajohnson bmiller
Member: mchen ajohnson bmiller
PasswordPlus:********
PrimaryGroupID: 600
RecordName: officegroup
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Groups
5 Remove the user by entering the following command, replacing ajohnson with the
short name of the user account, ajguid with ajohnson’s GUID, and officegroup with the
short name of the group account:
> delete
officegroup
GroupMembership
ajohnson
> delete
officegroup
GroupMembership
ajguid
6 Review the new settings of the group:
> read
officegroup
dscl displays the settings for the group, showing that the user you removed is no
longer a group member, similar to the following output:
apple-generateduid:4B3A5678-E9C1-2EC3-4567-891D234E5678
cn: officegroup
gidNumber: 600
MemberUid: mchen bmiller
objectClass: posixGroup apple-group extensibleObject top
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /LDAPv3/ipaddress
GeneratedUID:4B3A5678-E9C1-2EC3-4567-891D234E5678
GroupMembers:2B3A4567-E8C9-9EC2-3456-789D123E4567 8B9A1234-E5C6-7EC8-9123-
456D78E9123
GroupMembership: mchen bmiller
Member: mchen bmiller
PasswordPlus:********
PrimaryGroupID: 600
RecordName: officegroup
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Groups