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Get User SID

To get the SID (Security Identifier) you can use the command wmic useraccount. The command wmic useraccount is a command-line tool that allows you to get information about user accounts on a Windows system. By adding the where name='username' clause, you are specifying that you only want information about the user account with the specific username that you enter.

Finally, the get sid command is used to retrieve the SID of the user account specified in the previous clause.

So, in summary, the command wmic useraccount where name='username' get sid is used to get the SID of a specific user account, by specifying the username of the account in place of 'username'. And if you want to get the SID of the currently logged in user, you can use the command whoami /user.

wmic useraccount

The username are without domain.

wmic useraccount where name='username' get sid

whoami /user

whoami /user

The result will look like this Command