RE: Finding your SID (was Re: problem starting inetd as NT service)

["Gerald S. Williams" <gsw@agere.com>]

Jason Tishler wrote:
> You can find your SID (the "proper info" from above), by scanning through
> the following registry key:
> 
>     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
> 
> Choose the one where ProfileImagePath contains your $USERNAME.

After expanding variables, I was able to look for where
ProfileImagePath is equal to $USERPROFILE. YMMV.

I was able to come up with a short script that does the
equivalent of "mkpasswd -d -u $USERNAME" on my system.

However, I did not know what to do about the group
number. Based on my system and other e-mail I've seen,
I just hardcoded 513 for now, but that's probably not
universally correct. Is there any way to get that info
from the registry?


-Jerry


P.S. Here's the script I used. It's in Python, and only
works using the WINDOWS version right now since Cygwin
Python doesn't support the _winreg module.
-----
#!/usr/bin/echo THIS_IS_ONLY_FOR_WINDOWS_PYTHON

from _winreg import *
from os import environ

class User:
    def __init__(self,masterkey,sid):
        self.sid = sid
        userkey = OpenKey(masterkey,sid)
        self.data = {}
        for valueno in range(QueryInfoKey(userkey)[1]):
            (name,data,type) = EnumValue(userkey,valueno)
            self.data[name] = data
        userkey.Close()
        profilePath = self.data['ProfileImagePath'].split("%")
        for i in range(1,len(profilePath),2):
            profilePath[i] = environ[profilePath[i]]
        self.profilePath = "".join(profilePath)

users = []

masterkey = OpenKey(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\ProfileList")
for userno in range(QueryInfoKey(masterkey)[0]):
    users.append(User(masterkey,EnumKey(masterkey,userno)))
masterkey.Close()

profilePath = environ["USERPROFILE"]
userName = environ["USERNAME"]
userDomain = environ["USERDOMAIN"]

for user in users:
    if user.profilePath == profilePath:
        # Not clear what to use for group ID. Is 513 universally OK?
        # This assumes you want your home directory in /home/userName
        print ":".join([userName, \
                        "unused_by_nt/2000/xp", \
                        user.sid.split("-")[-1],
                        "513", \
                        "U-" + userDomain + "\\" + userName + "," + user.sid, \
                        "/home/" + userName, \
                        "/bin/bash"])

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