Output List of User's Groups

Question

While easy on Linux, not as easy on Windows from what I've been able to gather so far. I've found the command that kinda does what I want which is:

net user username /domain

However I wish to strip all of the data except for the list of the groups. I think findstr may be the answer but I'm not sure of how to use this to do that. Essentially, I guess the script would do something like this (unless there is a more specific command which would be fabulous):

net user username /domain > temp.txt
findstr (or some other command) file.txt > groups.txt
del temp.txt

The output of the data would be a list like this:

group1; group2; group3

Now, I could be going about this a complicated way, so as I mentioned if there is a command that can output ONLY a user's security groups that would be fantastic.

Answer 1

Use PowerShell!

$user = [wmi] "Win32_UserAccount.Name='JohnDoe',Domain='YourDomainName'"
$user.GetRelated('Win32_Group')

or only for group names:

$user = [wmi] "Win32_UserAccount.Name='JohnDoe',Domain='YourDomainName'"
$user.GetRelated('Win32_Group') | Select Name

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverpowershell/thread/67defa12-6ad1-439b-bd11-3abfc5b5208a/

Answer 2

Hmm.

net user paul /domain | find "Global Group memberships"

Will give you the the groups, but if you don't want the header you'd need something more involved:

for /f "tokens=4*" %f in ('net user paul /domain ^| find "Global Group memberships"') do echo %f

So %f contains the groups.

Answer 3

dsquery user -name "My Full Name" | dsget user -memberof | dsget group -samid

I found this pretty much gives me what I was looking for, in case anyone was curious! :)