How to determine if a SID is group or user?
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Nov 9 19:23:37 GMT 2000
John M Trostel wrote:
>
> How would I figure out if a specific ACE entry pertains to
> a group or a user?
>
> I can go in and look at the uid and/or gid with sid_to_uid
> or sid_to_gid (from the ace), but there must be some
> way to differentiate between the group and user ace's.
Samba uses the last bit as a flag. Of course, this
is entirely different from NT. No idea how to do it
on Win32. See passdb/passdb.c:pdb_rid_is_user() for details.
Cheers, jerry
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