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...thing is happy. There are NO local accounts in /etc/passwd except for the defaults out of the box. Authentication relies on the accounts of the Windows server. I have no authority on the server except to add or remove computers. Login accounts take the form, for example, initials and a number: se123456 I want my uid to reflect 123456. I spent about an hour or two playing with various configurations and options of idmap and winbind. ? Along the way, some testing revealed: getent passwd my_ad_account returned almost all appropriate values, but the uid and gid were both 10000, clearly not correct...

...ely configured files - not likewise open). getent passwd my_account reveals uid and gid are both 10000:10000. Thus, typing: % id reveals a uid of 10000. /etc/passwd does NOT have my local account created - credentials are strictly from the Active Directory domain. The username is of the format se123456. I want my uid to be of the format 123456 (numeric part of the username. I have looked at many options for smb.conf configurations. At this point, I'm starting to believe that if getent passwd provides 10000:10000 fior uid/gid then id is providing the correct details. My SID from the domain...

...ely configured files - not likewise open). getent passwd my_account reveals uid and gid are both 10000:10000. Thus, typing: % id reveals a uid of 10000. /etc/passwd does NOT have my local account created - credentials are strictly from the Active Directory domain. The username is of the format se123456. I want my uid to be of the format 123456 (numeric part of the username. I have looked at many options for smb.conf configurations. At this point, I'm starting to believe that if getent passwd provides 10000:10000 fior uid/gid then id is providing the correct details. My SID from the domain...

...re, thus, no local user accounts on the linux workstation. There is a network application that benefits most (maybe even requires) the user's numerical portion of their employee ID as their linux workstation id. Thus, if I log in, my domain username might be scott12. ? My employee ID might be se123456. ? ?If I log into the linux workstation, I'm going to log in as scott12 along with providing my password. ? ?I type id at the shell, and am given something like scott12 (10001) for the user. ? ?How can I manage to make the id [also] equal to 123456 for user scott12 without breaking anything? T...