Re: Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t

David Collier-Brown (davecb@Canada.Sun.COM)
Fri, 03 Apr 1998 09:15:29 -0500

Date:	Fri, 03 Apr 1998 09:15:29 -0500
From:	David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>
To:	lkcl@switchboard.net
Subject: Re: Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> yes, you absolutely _must_ have one NT user RID per machine: machine trust
> accounts _are_ actually users, after all. if you don't think so, have a
> look at the SAM part of the registry (see posting yesterday about adding
> read permission OH - you _have_ to use regedt32.exe _not_ regedit.exe to
> do that).

Are the various kinds of ids all taken from a common
name space (well, number space), or are they like
Unix uids and gids, separate and each populated
starting with zero?

--dave

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