On 9/22/2023 8:07 AM, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
On 2023-09-21 23:58, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
Does Cygwin have a shell (e.g. bash) API to lookup the Windows SID for
a given Cygwin user or group name?
/usr/bin/getent usersid thisisausername
Forget Windows! Think Unix:
$ getent passwd $USER # sanitized output:
$USER:*:$UID:545:U-$HOSTNAME/$USER,S-1-5-21-...-...-...-1001:$HOME:/bin/bash
According to the man page, getent passwd takes a numeric UID, not a user
name. But if you don't provide a UID, it basically lists what would be
in /etc/passwd, which you could parse to locate the row you want by
username.
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