Tag: user

Get Users SID with PowerShell

What is a User SID? It is user’s unique identifier, usually used in application to relate to a user in a unique way. Microsoft defines SID in the following way: A data structure of variable length that identifies user, group, and computer accounts. Every account on a network is issued a unique SID when the […]

Using Git with self-signed certificate at the user level

Introduction Some time ago I wrote about Installing self-signed certificates into Git cert store. With the advent of Visual Studio 2017 and updates of the Git client I noticed the limitation of this approach. Also, updates of Visual Studio brought updates to a git client and after each update, my self signed certificate was gone. […]