I want to wright a login script for my organization, The script needs to discover users by Group id's and then define the map drive they need on their computer. I started writing down the script and it looks like this: ID if [gid=10524657] then mkdir /home/likewise-open/Domain/Username/Desktop/Share sudo mount.cifs //fs01/salesnew /home/likewise-open/Domain/Username/Desktop/share -o user=X else [gid=41654564] (etc....) That is the first time i am writing a script in Ubuntu, Can you tell me what am i doing wrong ? Is it possible for Linux to identify the gid from the ID command ? if not what is the alternative option? Can someone please advise ?