Finding the UID for samba users

[Paul Howarth]

Tim Holmes wrote:
>>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

How about 'domain\username' (with the quotes) or domain\\username rather 
than just domain\username? Remember that "\" is a shell metacharacter.

Paul.