SIDs in profiles ...

abartlet at dp.samba.org abartlet at dp.samba.org
Thu Aug 22 21:08:02 GMT 2002


On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 04:38:30PM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In spired by the discussion by Volker today that you can actually migrate 
> an NT machine to Samba, I decided to look at my profile.
> 
> In NTUSER.DAT, I can see the SIDS, so I believe that it would be possible 
> to convert them to the new SIDS.
> 
> It turns out that newsid also can do this.
> 
> It would be nice to know more about the format of NTUSER.DAT so we could 
> replace all the SIDS.

The point of a migration is that the SID remains constant - no need to update 
NTUSER.DAT etc.

Andrew Bartlett



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