RE: Finding the UID for samba users

[Timothy A. Holmes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:fedora-list-
> [e-mail]] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 1:11 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Finding the UID for samba users
>
> Tim Holmes wrote:
> > > getent passwd username | cut -d: -f3
> > >
> > > Substitute "username" with the username you're interested in.
> >
> > [Tim Holmes]
> > Paul:
> >
> > Thanks so much --
> >
> > Just as a learning tool for me, could you explain the switches that

you
> > used after the pipe in that command?  I am not familiar with them.
>
> See "man cut" for explanation of options for the "cut" program...
>
> Paul.

[Tim Holmes]

Paul

It appears, that since the users are being validated against the active
directory, there are no entries for them in the passwd database.  The
getent passwd command returns no values

Any other ideas?

TIM

Finding the UID for samba users

[Paul Howarth]

Tim Holmes wrote:
> It appears, that since the users are being validated against the active
> directory, there are no entries for them in the passwd database.  The
> getent passwd command returns no values
>
> Any other ideas?

Are you including the domain name with the username, e.g.

getent passwd 'DOMAIN\USER' | cut -d: -f3

Paul.

Finding the UID for samba users

[Brian Gaynor]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 13:20 -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
> Paul
>
> It appears, that since the users are being validated against the active
> directory, there are no entries for them in the passwd database.  The
> getent passwd command returns no values
>
> Any other ideas?

If you're using winbind to authenticate you can use wbinfo to query the
remote authentication server.