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Re: useradd & user ids


On Apr 21 11:11, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Apr 21 01:15, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > > Besides, the default mapping is to take the last 4 digits of the SID
> > > for the UID for local users, and 10000 + the last 4 digits of the SID
> > > for domain users,
> >
> > Nope, it takes the complete RID as uid or gid, even if it's > 9999.
> 
> Sorry, I should have said "the last part of the SID, which is usually 4
> digits [...]

You should see the RIDs in big installations with > 100.000 users...

>   Plus, I didn't know
> it was called the RID. :-)  Thanks for the correction.

You didn't have a look into http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
lately, I assume.  The RID is mentioned right at the start. ;-)


Corinna

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