On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich at gmail.com> wrote: > You have a CentOS (for example) workstation that is a member of a > Windows AD domain courtesy of modified smb.conf and krb5.conf files. > There are, 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? > > Thanks for any leads. > > Scott You need to use IDMAP to do this. Have a look at the below link, specially the IDMAP storage in LDAP section. http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html Ryan