Getting the Username from the HKEY_USERS values
Is there a way to connect between the values under HKEY_USERS to the actual username?
I saw some similar questions, but most (if not all) talks about C# code, and my need is in VBScript.
If you look at either of the following keys:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\hivelist
You can find a list of the SIDs there with various values, including where their "home paths" which includes their usernames.
I'm not sure how dependable this is and I wouldn't recommend messing about with this unless you're really sure what you're doing.
It is possible to query this information from WMI. The following command will output a table with a row for every user along with the SID for each user.
wmic useraccount get name,sid
You can also export this information to CSV:
wmic useraccount get name,sid /format:csv > output.csv
I have used this on Vista and 7. For more information see WMIC - Take Command-line Control over WMI.
Open Reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\
make a loop to get all subkeys
the subkeys you are interested with are those started with [S-1-5-21-] which means user (see key name [ProfileImagePath] they are always started with a path c:\Users)
Those starting with [S-1-5-21-12] are all local users
Those starting with [S-1-5-21-13] are all network users [if joined to Domained network] that are previously logged on the machine.
By searching for my userid in the registry, I found
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment\Username
You can use the command PSGetSid from Microsoft's SysInternals team.
Download URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897417.aspx
Usage:
psgetsid [\\computer[,computer[,...] | @file] [-u username [-p password]]] [account|SID]
-u Specifies optional user name for login to remote computer.
-p Specifies optional password for user name. If you omit this you will be prompted to enter a hidden password.
Account PsGetSid will report the SID for the specified user account rather than the computer.
SID PsGetSid will report the account for the specified SID.
Computer Direct PsGetSid to perform the command on the remote computer or computers specified. If you omit the computer name PsGetSid runs the command on the local system, and if you specify a wildcard (\\*), PsGetSid runs the command on all computers in the current domain.
@file PsGetSid will execute the command on each of the computers listed in the file.
Example:
psgetsid S-1-5-21-583907252-682003330-839522115-63941
NB:
- Where the user is a domain/AD(LDAP) user, running this on any computer on the domain should give the same results.
- Where the user is local to the machine the command should either be run on that machine, or you should specify the computer via the optional parameter.
Update
If you use PowerShell, the following may be useful for resolving any AD users listed:
#create a drive for HKEY USERS:
New-PSDrive -PSProvider Registry -Name HKU -Root HKEY_USERS -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#List all immediate subfolders
#where they're a folder (not a key)
#and they's an SID (i.e. exclude .DEFAULT and SID_Classes entries)
#return the SID
#and return the related AD entry (should one exist).
Get-ChildItem -Path 'HKU:\' `
| ?{($_.PSIsContainer -eq $true) `
-and ($_.PSChildName -match '^S-[\d-]+$')} `
| select @{N='SID';E={$_.PSChildName}} `
, @{N='Name';E={Get-ADUser $_.PSChildName | select -expand Name}}
You could also refine the SID filter further to only pull back those SIDs which will resolve to an AD account if you wished; more on the SID structure here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc962011.aspx