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Oracle difference between SID, DB Name, DB Domain, Global Database Name, Service Name, Service Alias and Instance Name

What's the difference of SID, DB Name, DB Domain, Global Database Name, Service Name, Service Alias and Instance Name in Oracle ?
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Can I "merge" two groups using SID history?

I have two AD groups which were erroneously created while there should instead have been only one group; they contain the exact same users. However, these groups have been assigned various permissions on variuos resources (like file shares), and I'm…
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Get SID by its objectSid using ldapsearch

I have the objectSid attribute as returned by the ldapsearch command, how can I generate SID from it in human readable format? ldapsearch command: ldapsearch -LLL -H ldap://dc.example.com:389 -b dc=example,dc=lk -D example\administrator -w…
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Where can I get the default /etc/hosts file for Debian Sid?

I've somehow deleted /etc/hosts on my testing system, which is Debian Sid. Now I want to install the default /etc/hosts. I tried dpkg -S /etc/hosts to find out which package contains /etc/hosts, but none was found. Where can I download it from ?
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Wrong SID for Administrator account

In researching my problem for this question, I discovered that the SID for the account in the domain named "Administrator" account is: S-1-5-21-2025429265-492894223-1708537768-1124 That's got to be wrong, because real Administrator SID's end in 500.…
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How can I change the SID of a user account in the Active Directory?

I accidentally deleted a user account, and need to recreate it with the same SID. I've created a new user account with the same name, but how do I edit the objectSid attribute? ADSIEDIT errors with "Access to the attribute is not permitted because…
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Active directory with duplicate machine SIDs

I have a number of machines running Win2k3 and 2k8R2 that I would like to join to a domain. All the machines have been imaged from the same image, without using sysprep or anything similar. This means they all have the same SID. Am I going to run…
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What does an alias group means in SID context?

Reading https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/groupmapping.html, I found out that there exists an alias for groups. But what does this alias mean? Does it means that it is connected to another group and inherit this…
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User name by SID?

How can I determine user name and domain if all I have is the user's SID?
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LSA SID cache keeps old entry for renamed domain user - why?

I have a question about LSA SID cache on a domain member server. Recently I run into the issue when some users after their name was changed in AD has difficulties accessing application I support, and they also have old user name shown on SharePoint…
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SID in AD - SID from psgetsid?

Wondering if anyone can shed some light on some SID confusion. Currently having an issue with some policy applying to a few machines that were all based off the same image. One of our admins, ran psgetsid \[PC] on a few of those machines and…
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Is a new SID applied when sysprep-ping a Windows image or when deploying?

My organisation currently has Windows XP (yes, I know official support for it ceases in less than 24 hours) and Windows 7 system images made with Symantec Ghost 11 that we routinely deploy to machines. A required step after deployment is to run…
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Converting physical Win2008 Machine into Hyper-V virtual machine on same box. Change SID?

We only have one hardware box. We converted our C drive into a VHD. We want to run install Hyper-V on our server to then load the new VHD as a virtual machine. We will be updating the physical box to 2012, but want to make sure the VHD file…
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SIDs in Active Directory GPO

I am looking into some weird issues with active directory and group policy. This domain has been upgraded from windows NT and has had a few different administrators over the years. I am looking through the Default Domain group policy and Default…
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How to get (AD) LDAP person entry by SID?

Given the SID of a user or a group, how can I find a LDAP object that belongs to it? LDAP Server ist Active Directory (Windows Server 2008). A LDAP query String would be useful.
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