GETSUBIDS(1)

✨ NAME ✨

ok so bestie, meet getsubids — it gets the subordinate id ranges for a user 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

getsubids [options] USER

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so basically, the getsubids command lists the subordinate user ID ranges for a given user. that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

and if you're like "bestie what about the group ones 🥺" — no worries, you can get the subordinate group IDs listed too, you just gotta use the -g option 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here are the options that apply to the getsubids command, and yes i'm giving you all of them, no skips 🙈:

• -g — list the subordinate group ID ranges 🫶
• -h — display the help message and exit. iconic, respectful, does exactly what it says on the tin 👑

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

say you wanna obtain the subordinate UIDs of testuser — periodt, here's how:

$ getsubids testuser
0: testuser 100000 65536

and the way that this output is giving you four things, in order from left to right: the list index, the username, the UID range start, and the number of UIDs in range 🔥 no cap.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read these next besties, they're all connected, iykyk:

• login.defs(5)
• newgidmap(1)
• newuidmap(1)
• subgid(5)
• subuid(5)
• useradd(8)
• userdel(8)
• usermod(8)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 go forth and map those subids, you absolute main character 🌟

mwah 💋 this one's from shadow-utils 4.20.0, dated 07/30/2026 — love that for us 🎀