Re: Pretty slick, huh? (No!)

nelz — Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:14 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:14 pm

Code:

grep ^kenmyer: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3

although it's even easier with

Code:

id -u kenmyer

Re: Pretty slick, huh? (No!)

M0PHP — Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:59 pm

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:59 pm

But you could argue that "Wscript.Echo objAccount.SID" gets the actual SID, whereas the grep command you quoted gets the whole line of the *nix username.

Pretty slick, huh? (No!)

overflow — Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:44 pm

Author: overflow

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:44 pm

Unfortunately, in my work, I come into constant contact with Windows, which I find increasingly troublesome. Today, I needed to find out who a SID belonged to. A SID, if you don't know, is a complex string that uniquely identifies a user - globally. A bit like uid numbers in Unix.

Anyway, I needed to find the owner of a SID and so after a bit of a hunt, I came across this on MS TechNet's Script Guy site which, although back-to-front, would allow me to get there.

Technet wrote:

Code:

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set objAccount = objWMIService.Get _
("Win32_UserAccount.Name='kenmyer',Domain='atl-ws-01'")
Wscript.Echo objAccount.SID

Pretty slick, huh?

No!

Absolutely horrible!.

What a revolting, unmemorable, twisted mess.

Try this:

Code:

grep "^kenmyer:" /etc/passwd

Which is slicker, Script Guy?

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