In the context of the
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...
Windows NT
Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released on July 27, 1993. It is a processor-independent, multiprocessing and multi-user operating system.
The first version of Win ...
line of
computer operating systems, the relative identifier (RID) is a variable length number that is assigned to objects at creation and becomes part of the object's
Security Identifier
In the context of the Microsoft Windows NT line of operating systems, a Security Identifier (commonly abbreviated SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user, user group, or other security principal. A security principal has a single SID for ...
(SID) that uniquely identifies an account or group within a domain. The Relative ID Master allocates security RIDs to Domain Controllers to assign to new Active Directory security principals (users, groups or computer objects). It also manages objects moving between domains.
The ''Relative ID Master'' is one role of the
Flexible single master operation
Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO, F is sometimes "floating"; pronounced Fiz-mo), or just single master operation or operations master, is a feature of Microsoft's Active Directory (AD). As of 2005, the term FSMO has been deprecated in favour ...
for assigning RID.
See also
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Security Identifier
In the context of the Microsoft Windows NT line of operating systems, a Security Identifier (commonly abbreviated SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user, user group, or other security principal. A security principal has a single SID for ...
References
Security Identifiers (SID)
Windows NT kernel
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