Windows security identifier (SID)
ID windows_sid
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
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Identifier of a security principal in Microsoft Windows, such as a user account, group, computer or service. Its text form is S-1- followed by the identifier authority and up to 15 subauthorities, all decimal and separated by hyphens. Domain and local accounts have SIDs starting with S-1-5-21. Well-known SIDs, such as S-1-5-32-544 for the local Administrators group, are the same on all systems.
- Categories
- Software development, User accounts in products and services
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 75/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^S-1-\d+(?:-\d+){1,15}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| S-1-5-32-544 | Well-known SID of the built-in Administrators group |
| S-1-1-0 | Well-known SID World, the group of all users |
| S-1-5-80-859482183-879914841-863379149-1145462774-2388618682 | Service SID of the dnscache service |
| S-1-5 invalid | An identifier authority without subauthorities |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Identifier
- doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/manage/understand-security-identifiers
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/windows_sid - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/software/windows_sid.yamlon GitHub