SIDs in profiles ...

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 abartlet at dp.samba.org wrote:

> 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.

When you consolidate domains, SIDs are going to change. Even RIDs may have 
to change.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
sharpe at ethereal.com