Finding the UID for samba users

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 05.08.2005 schrieb Paul Howarth um 19:06:

> > 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.  

> Try:
> 
> getent passwd username | cut -d: -f3
> 
> Substitute "username" with the username you're interested in.
> 
> Paul.

Or

awk -F":" ' { print "UID: "$3"   \tName: "$1 } ' /etc/passwd

to get a full list. Normally all user ids >=500 are mortal user accounts.

Alexander


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