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From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
bounces(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 1:11 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Finding the UID for samba users
Tim Holmes wrote:
>>getent passwd username | cut -d: -f3
>>
>>Substitute "username" with the username you're interested in.
>>
>
> [Tim Holmes]
> Paul:
>
> Thanks so much --
>
>
> Just as a learning tool for me, could you explain the switches that
you
> used after the pipe in that command? I am not familiar with
them.
See "man cut" for explanation of options for the "cut" program...
Paul.
[Tim Holmes]
Paul
It appears, that since the users are being validated against the active
directory, there are no entries for them in the passwd database. The
getent passwd command returns no values
Any other ideas?
TIM