Does anyone know of a reliable way to get the machine SID for a given windows box? For what it's worth, I only need to get the value for the machine I am running on--I don't need to query a remote machine through WMI.

It's supposedly available in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SECURITY\SAM\Domains\Account registry key, but the SECURITY hive is locked down and I can't access it.

Win32::LookupAccountName will give me user SIDs, and Win32::Security::SID will parse the results and give me a clean text string from them.

The only missing piece of the puzzle is a reliable way to obtain the machine SID. I'd appreciate any insight anyone has into the problem.


TGI says moo

In reply to Win32: Getting the Machine SID by TGI

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