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Can I "merge" two groups using SID history?

I have two AD groups which were erroneously created while there should instead have been only one group; they contain the exact same users. However, these groups have been assigned various permissions on variuos resources (like file shares), and I'm…
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Get SID by its objectSid using ldapsearch

I have the objectSid attribute as returned by the ldapsearch command, how can I generate SID from it in human readable format? ldapsearch command: ldapsearch -LLL -H ldap://dc.example.com:389 -b dc=example,dc=lk -D example\administrator -w…
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Where can I get the default /etc/hosts file for Debian Sid?

I've somehow deleted /etc/hosts on my testing system, which is Debian Sid. Now I want to install the default /etc/hosts. I tried dpkg -S /etc/hosts to find out which package contains /etc/hosts, but none was found. Where can I download it from ?
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Wrong SID for Administrator account

In researching my problem for this question, I discovered that the SID for the account in the domain named "Administrator" account is: S-1-5-21-2025429265-492894223-1708537768-1124 That's got to be wrong, because real Administrator SID's end in 500.…
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How can I change the SID of a user account in the Active Directory?

I accidentally deleted a user account, and need to recreate it with the same SID. I've created a new user account with the same name, but how do I edit the objectSid attribute? ADSIEDIT errors with "Access to the attribute is not permitted because…
Bob Robertson
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Active directory with duplicate machine SIDs

I have a number of machines running Win2k3 and 2k8R2 that I would like to join to a domain. All the machines have been imaged from the same image, without using sysprep or anything similar. This means they all have the same SID. Am I going to run…
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What does an alias group means in SID context?

Reading https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/groupmapping.html, I found out that there exists an alias for groups. But what does this alias mean? Does it means that it is connected to another group and inherit this…
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User name by SID?

How can I determine user name and domain if all I have is the user's SID?
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LSA SID cache keeps old entry for renamed domain user - why?

I have a question about LSA SID cache on a domain member server. Recently I run into the issue when some users after their name was changed in AD has difficulties accessing application I support, and they also have old user name shown on SharePoint…
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SID in AD - SID from psgetsid?

Wondering if anyone can shed some light on some SID confusion. Currently having an issue with some policy applying to a few machines that were all based off the same image. One of our admins, ran psgetsid \[PC] on a few of those machines and…
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Is a new SID applied when sysprep-ping a Windows image or when deploying?

My organisation currently has Windows XP (yes, I know official support for it ceases in less than 24 hours) and Windows 7 system images made with Symantec Ghost 11 that we routinely deploy to machines. A required step after deployment is to run…
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SIDs in Active Directory GPO

I am looking into some weird issues with active directory and group policy. This domain has been upgraded from windows NT and has had a few different administrators over the years. I am looking through the Default Domain group policy and Default…
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How to get (AD) LDAP person entry by SID?

Given the SID of a user or a group, how can I find a LDAP object that belongs to it? LDAP Server ist Active Directory (Windows Server 2008). A LDAP query String would be useful.
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SID changed on exchange, trust is broken between AD and exchange

I V2V a Hyper-V guest in production running Exchange 2007 to ESXi 4.1 last night. Today I discovered that while the exchange works, I am not able to add new organizations and mailboxes to it. Been reading a little about the subject, and if I…
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Change SQL Server user SID

I have SQL Server 2012 and I am using domain users (from Active Directory). By mistake users were deleted from AD, created new with identical logins and passwords (but with different SIDs), deleted and restored the original ones - in the end old…
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