Finding the GID of AD groups with samba

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 11:00 -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> A couple weeks ago, the list helped me develop the way to find the UID
> of users on my AD system.  At the time I did not think that it would be
> necessary to know the GID of the AD Groups, but I am hitting some snags
> where I need to change the group ownership of folders etc.  
> 
> I suspect that the necessary command is a variant of the getent command,
> but man getent has not yielded where I should look for them.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction.  Specifically, what I am
> looking for is a command that will allow me to generate a list of all
> the user groups on the system and their GID.  This will allow me to
> chgrp the folders as necessary.

"getent group" doesn't work?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>