How to find User Security Identifier (SID) in Windows [Part 1]

You may have the SID and do not know the user it belongs to. Or the use is known, but do not know the SID. So there will be a need to use a windows command. Matching the SIDs to accounts is very easy using the necessary commands. In this article, we shall discuss “How to find User Security Identifier (SID) in Windows [Part 1]”. Please, see a similar guide, and “Clone a Virtual Machine via Export and Import: How to copy Virtual Hard Disk on Hyper-V“.

If you follow the steps below you will be able to do the matching very easily. In this article, you will learn about Security Identifier: Find User SID in Windows.

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Find User SID via the WMIC Command

Open the command prompt terminal and type this command and hit the enter key:

You will get the SIDs displayed

If you know the particular account username and only need that account SID then you will have to replace the name with the user.

I will be typing temitope as the USER

How to find the Users using the SID

This time around you may have the SID and you need to know the USER, then you will need to reverse the command like this:

Once you click enter you will see the name of the SID.         

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Via the Windows Registry

Another way we can find a user SID is through the Registry. Follow this path below. The SID can be confirmed by looking through the ProfileImagePath.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. 

On the ProfileList you will notice some numbers that are security identifiers and when I select the SID S-1-5-21-522739724-11777 you will see the corresponding account C:\Users\temitope and I can confirm that the SID belongs to the user account temitope.

I hope you found this blog post on how to find User Security Identifier (SID) in Windows [Part 1] very interesting and helpful. In case you have any questions do not hesitate to ask in the comment section.