When you say: " Every instance in SMB world has to have its own SID " Does that mean that on top of every logon, say- for each folder connection, a SID is generated? And if so, is this a temporary SID like a token for the session, or is it stored internally to SAMBA?
T.I.A. -Moondance -----Original Message----- From: Ilia Chipitsine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 2:56 AM To: Jeremy Allison Cc: Moondance Foxmarnick; SAMBA Subject: Re: [Samba] SIDs and UIDs and RIDs - Oh My! > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:00:16PM -0700, Moondance Foxmarnick wrote: >> >> But what the @[EMAIL PROTECTED] is a Relative IDentifier (RID)?!? >> >> On page 153 the command to map a windows group to a *nix group - no mention >> of RIDs. > > A SID is a 128 bit identifier of a user/group/computer on a network > (a GUUID really). It consists of a 96-bit "domain" id, with a 32-bit > "relative id" (RID) suffix. Official Samba3 Howto is certanly missing such a clear definition :-) I would expand user/group/computer to user/group/computer/domain/interdomaintrust/etc :-) Every instance in SMB world has to have its own SID > > So for a given RID, you prepend the 96-bit domain id to get the full > SID. > > SIDs are supposed to be "structured", but for real users/groups > and computers they are of the form described above. > > Certain (less than 128 bit) SIDs are "well known" SIDs. Such as > the "Administrators" group. > > Jeremy. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
