Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, David Collier-Brown wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > yes, you absolutely _must_ have one NT user RID per machine: machine trust
> > accounts _are_ actually users, after all.  if you don't think so, have a
> > look at the SAM part of the registry (see posting yesterday about adding
> > read permission OH - you _have_ to use regedt32.exe _not_ regedit.exe to
> > do that).
> 
> 	Are the various kinds of ids all taken from a common
> 	name space (well, number space),

yes.  except that the RIDs must be unique even across user and group IDs,
because a group RID can own resources (files, directories).

> or are they like
> 	Unix uids and gids, separate and each populated
> 	starting with zero?

what do you mean by this?

luke