Comments on: Finding UNIX-Enabled Accounts in Active Directory MMC http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/18/finding-unix-enabled-accounts-in-active-directory-mmc/ The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:24:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: tom http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/18/finding-unix-enabled-accounts-in-active-directory-mmc/comment-page-1/#comment-46455 tom Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:34:00 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/18/finding-unix-enabled-accounts-in-active-directory-mmc/#comment-46455 Found this site looking for the syntax; glad you posted it! You mentioned dsquery... here is a sample of the syntax in case anyone is looking for it: dsquery * domainroot -filter "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(uidNumber=*))" -attr uid uidNumber gidNumber unixHomeDirectory loginShell This returns related information for all UNIX enabled accounts in AD. -tom Found this site looking for the syntax; glad you posted it! You mentioned dsquery… here is a sample of the syntax in case anyone is looking for it:

dsquery * domainroot -filter “(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(uidNumber=*))” -attr uid uidNumber gidNumber unixHomeDirectory loginShell

This returns related information for all UNIX enabled accounts in AD.

-tom

]]> By: Sandu Mihai http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/18/finding-unix-enabled-accounts-in-active-directory-mmc/comment-page-1/#comment-39470 Sandu Mihai Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:39:12 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/18/finding-unix-enabled-accounts-in-active-directory-mmc/#comment-39470 Well, it is not related to the post, I am sorry for off-topic, but the post that this reply is related is Comment Closed. You did stumble apon a strange VMWare problem, related to rights on /var/run/vmware. I stumbled upon the same, and the problem was not related to rights on this directory, but on the subdirectory made by vmware in this directory. VMWare will make a subdirectory for each user you add to the sistem (and that has a VM active). The problem arises when you delete then recreate the same user. If you do that, VMWare won't delete /var/run/ directory, and when you will create a new VM you will hit the 'rights problem' since /var/run/ exists but is 'owned' by the 'old version of ' (the UID of owned is the old UID for the user). Well, it is not related to the post, I am sorry for off-topic, but the post that this reply is related is Comment Closed.

You did stumble apon a strange VMWare problem, related to rights on /var/run/vmware.
I stumbled upon the same, and the problem was not related to rights on this directory, but on the subdirectory made by vmware in this directory. VMWare will make a subdirectory for each user you add to the sistem (and that has a VM active). The problem arises when you delete then recreate the same user. If you do that, VMWare won’t delete /var/run/ directory, and when you will create a new VM you will hit the ‘rights problem’ since /var/run/ exists but is ‘owned’ by the ‘old version of ‘ (the UID of owned is the old UID for the user).

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