Finding the UID for samba users

Mogens Kjaer mk at crc.dk
Sun Aug 7 10:16:08 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.  
...

Why not simply:

chown username /home/username

You don't need the numerical UID of the
user.

Mogens

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