Finding the UID for samba users

Tim Holmes tholmes at mcaschool.net
Fri Aug 5 17:08:35 UTC 2005


> 
> 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.
> >
> > I know that I can do it by logging in as each individual user, and
then
> > touching a file in a public directory, but that seems like the long
way
> > around the barn to get it done.
> >
> > Any insights?
> 
> Try:
> 
> getent passwd username | cut -d: -f3
> 
> Substitute "username" with the username you're interested in.
> 
> Paul.
> 
[Tim Holmes] 
Paul:

Thanks so much -- 


Just as a learning tool for me, could you explain the switches that you
used after the pipe in that command?  I am not familiar with them.

TIM






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