Finding family members lost iPhone

If I want to locate a family members lost iphone does the username and password for icloud have to be the same on his device and mine?
What if his username and password are different than mine, can I still locate his lost iphone?

You need to sign into iCloud (or find my iPhone app) with his Apple ID and password. For this to work he needed to have location services active.

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