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overflow
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 Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject: Pretty slick, huh? (No!) |
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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
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Pretty slick, huh? |
No!
Absolutely horrible!.
What a revolting, unmemorable, twisted mess.
Try this:
| Code: | grep "^kenmyer:" /etc/passwd
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Which is slicker, Script Guy?
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M0PHP
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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nelz
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | grep ^kenmyer: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3 |
although it's even easier with
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