Finding the UID for samba users
Tim Holmes
tholmes at mcaschool.net
Mon Aug 8 15:47:42 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.
> ...
>
> Why not simply:
>
> chown username /home/username
>
> You don't need the numerical UID of the
> user.
>
> Mogens
>
[Tim Holmes]
For some odd reason, it does not like that when I specify the username
as domain/username domain\username DOMAIN/USERNAME or DOMAIN/USERNAME it
chokes on it every time, so I don't know whats up, but using the UID
works nicely, so its not a huge deal
TIM
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