[Samba] Samba + sssd deployment: success and failure

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Sat Jun 15 11:34:01 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 21:06 +0100, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> > > I think you mean 'RID' instead of 'SID'
> > Yes, you're right.  The Windows people seem to use the terms synonymously.
> I cannot help that, the SID identifies the domain and the RID is 
> appended to the end of the SID and identifies the object (user, 
> group,computer etc)

Rowland,
using the term SID is more correct, especially when talking about
Windows Forests, or domains with trusts.
RIDs are not globally unique only the full SID is, and any mapping maps
SIDs (ie domain part + RID) to a UID or GID, not just the RID.

Simo.




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