On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Aaron Roberts <arobe...@domicilium.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a bit of inspiration... > > I have a number of linux boxes using winbind to provide UNIX system users > from a Win2008R2 Active Directory domain. I'm using winbind's RID idmap > backend thing to provide consistent UNIX UIDs and GIDs across multiple > servers. For non-windows people, the RID is a 32 bit integer which uniquely > identifies an object in a domain, and forms the right-most part of the Active > Directory forest-wide SID. > > A SID looks like: > S-1-5-21-993118751-601841214-1674189692-1134 > > The RID, in the above case, is 1134. > > My UNIX UIDs are always (RID + 1000).
I always thought unix uid (or at leaset linux) is unsigned short; won't you run into problem at one point with this?
