[Samba] Getting a Windows username from an SID with Samba/Winbind

[Alexander Födisch]

wbinfo -s <SID> is what you are looking for.

Best




Toby Newman schrieb:
> 
> I am running Linux in a corporate windows environment.
> 
> I need to convert user's Active Directory security identifiers (SIDs) to 
> usernames, for example S-1-5-21-484763869-1275210071-682003330-34567 to 
> mydomain\jbloggs.
> 
> There are a few Windows tools that do this like SIDDecode and SidToName, 
> but they don't work under wine.
> 
> I've been reading about Winbind and Samba and it seems it may be 
> possible to achieve this with those. Does anyone here know how?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Toby Newman

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