Finding the UID for samba users

[Paul Howarth]

Tim Holmes wrote:
>>Tim Holmes wrote:
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>>>It appears, that since the users are being validated against the
> 
> active
> 
>>>directory, there are no entries for them in the passwd database.
> 
> The
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>>>getent passwd command returns no values
>>>
>>>Any other ideas?
>>
>>Are you including the domain name with the username, e.g.
>>
>>getent passwd 'DOMAIN\USER' | cut -d: -f3
>>
>>Paul.
>>
> 
> [Tim Holmes] 
> 
> Paul -- that fixed it -- thanks so much,  one more if I could?
> 
> Is there a way to just get a complete listing -- perhaps even
> printable??
> 
> thanks again 

Try this:

getent passwd | awk -F: '{ printf "%-20s %5d %s\n", $1, $3, $5 }' | 
LC_ALL=C sort +1

(that's all one line)

Username, UID, Real Name in 3 columns

Might not work if you have "winbind enum users = no" in your samba config.

Paul.