Finding the UID for samba users

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Aug 5 17:06:44 UTC 2005


Tim Holmes wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I am in the process of moving all of our users over to our new Samba
> File server which runs FC3.
> 
> In order to properly secure the home folders, I need to chown them to
> the UID of the individual user, and chgrp them to the domain users
> group.  I know the GID for the domain users, so no problem there.  Is
> there a way to find a list of the UID for all the users.  
> 
> I know that I can do it by logging in as each individual user, and then
> touching a file in a public directory, but that seems like the long way
> around the barn to get it done.
> 
> Any insights?

Try:

getent passwd username | cut -d: -f3

Substitute "username" with the username you're interested in.

Paul.




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