LKBEN11675: How to find the SID for the user from the Windows command line?

Symptom

You need to find the SID (= security identifier) of a certain user.

Cause

Solution

To find the SID you open a command line as administrator and type the following:

wmic useraccount get name,sid

This will show you something like:

Name                SID
Administrator       S-1-5-21-4118348484-4021748030-481564265-500
DefaultAccount      S-1-5-21-4118348484-4021748030-481564265-503
Gast                S-1-5-21-4118348484-4021748030-481564265-501
Oops                S-1-5-21-4118348484-4021748030-481564265-1001
WDAGUtilityAccount  S-1-5-21-4118348484-4021748030-481564265-504

To find the SID for one user only, you can use:

wmic useraccount where name="Wimmi" get sid

SID
S-1-5-21-4118348484-4021748030-481564265-1001

Have fun.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 07-09-2023