[Samba] Q: how to collect user/group-names

[Frank Van Damme]

On 9/24/07, Chris Osicki <osk at admin.swisscom-mobile.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry if it's not 100% appropriate for this list, cannot think of better
> place to find people with lots of know-how from Unix and Windows.
> I'm currently working on replacing EMC's Celerra file servers by Linux/Samba.
> The SID to UID/GID mapping table on Celerra is very large, ~50'000 entries
> and I don't want to pollute my LDAP server with all this (using winbind with
> LDAP back-end). Most of those entries are there for historical reasons and are
> just useless.
> Now my question: does anybody know a tool working under Windows to scan a
> filesystem and collect all usernames/groupnames (or SIDS) used?
> Any Samba's tool having this capability?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Regards,
> Chris

Chris,

Easy. Find is your friend. It can find anything and do whatever with
the results.

find /tmp/ -type f -printf "%U \n" | sort | uniq > uids.txt
find /tmp/ -type f -printf "%G \n" | sort | uniq > gids.txt

If you know the uid's and gid's + you got the mappings, it's easy to
know which sid's you (don't) need.

-- 
Frank Van Damme

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