This attribute contains information about every account type object. You can enumerate a list of account types or you can use the Display Information API to create a list. Because computers, normal user accounts, and trust accounts can also be enumerated as user objects, the values for these accounts must be a contiguous range.
The possible values for this attribute are the following:
SAM_DOMAIN_OBJECT 0x0
SAM_GROUP_OBJECT 0x10000000
SAM_NON_SECURITY_GROUP_OBJECT 0x10000001
SAM_ALIAS_OBJECT 0x20000000
SAM_NON_SECURITY_ALIAS_OBJECT 0x20000001
SAM_USER_OBJECT 0x30000000
SAM_NORMAL_USER_ACCOUNT 0x30000000
SAM_MACHINE_ACCOUNT 0x30000001
SAM_TRUST_ACCOUNT 0x30000002
SAM_APP_BASIC_GROUP 0x40000000
SAM_APP_QUERY_GROUP 0x40000001
SAM_ACCOUNT_TYPE_MAX 0x7fffffff
Entry
Value
CN
SAM-Account-Type
Ldap-Display-Name
sAMAccountType
Size
-
Update Privilege
This value is set by the system.
Update Frequency
This is set by the operating system when the object is created.
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