I need to get machine SID (not computer account's SID) in C#. Computer is specified be host name, it is't necessarily local computer and it can be domain computer or workgroup computer. I using thi...

I have a C# application that scans a directory and gathers some information. I would like to display the account name for each file. I can do this on the local system by getting the SID for the Fil...

What the difference between session id and connect.sid? For example: console.log('session id =', req.sessionID) Result: session id = CCw2pSpdPf8NRKLQpFH-nlFztEzps24Q And: console.log('req....

I'm building Active Directory Authentication into my application and I am planning to link my application's internal accounts to a user's domain SID. It is easier for me to work with the string for...

There's a question about converting from a SID to an account name; there isn't one for the other way around. How do you convert a username to a SID string, for example, to find out which HKEY_USER...

How does one retrieve the Windows Logon SID in C# .net? (not the user SID, but the unique new one for each session)

I want to convert SID string format to bytes array representation which in turn will be supplied to LookupAccountSid() method's second argument in C#. But I don't find any particular in built funct...

I am looking for an easy way to get the SID for the current Windows user account. I know I can do it through WMI, but I don't want to go that route. Apologies to everybody that answered in C# for ...

I've tried man(3) setsid, but it only explains how to use it, I don't quiet understand when is setsid useful?

I needed to change the SID of an Oracle XE database (not the Service Name) to match a production database. When I tried searching online, most of the pages were describing changing or adding a ser...

Why do I need two of them? When I have to use one or another?

TFSConfig Identities listed all TFS accounts and all but one matched Windows. How do I fix the lone user account where the Match is False? While this may not be relevant, I add it to the post in ...

I was looking to implement a named pipe for service/client communication in .NET and came across this code that, while initializing server side of the pipe had to set up a security descriptor for t...

I'm building a web based client with strophe and jquery and I'm using openfire as server. Almost everything its working, I can get the roster list, send and receive messages, but when I'm trying t...

I have the user's SID as byte[] within windowsPrincipal.getIdentity().getSid(). How can I get an Active Directory entry (DirectoryEntry) from the SID?

I have a Windows service that needs to access registry hives under HKEY_USERS when users log on, either locally or via Terminal Server. I'm using a WMI query on win32_logonsession to receive events...

I'm looking for a way to extract the computer SID using Delphi code. There's a tool called PsGetSid from SysInternals that does this, but I can't use it in my application. I searched for a code exa...

In .net, I can create a NTAccount using domain and username, and get it's SID. But I cannot convert the SID back to NTAccount using translate function. new SecurityIdentifier(stringSid).Translate...

Using VB.NET, How do you Convert the sid to Group Name with Active Directory? example: I need to get "group_test" and not "S-1-5-32-544" The code I'm using is: Public ReadOnly Property Groups A...

I am using Active Directory in a custom MembershipProvider class to authenticate users in an ASP.NET 2.0 intranet application and associate their sid with a profile for the application. When the A...

I read a list of SIDs from the registry, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. How would one resolve the display username (e.g. DOMAIN\user, BUILT-IN\user) g...