Re: Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 15:51:09 +0100 (BST)

Date:	Sat, 4 Apr 1998 15:51:09 +0100 (BST)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t
In-Reply-To: <3524EF01.81CCE866@canada.sun.com>

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, David Collier-Brown wrote:

> 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),

yes. except that the RIDs must be unique even across user and group IDs,
because a group RID can own resources (files, directories).

> or are they like
> Unix uids and gids, separate and each populated
> starting with zero?

what do you mean by this?

luke