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Powershell: SID to Username

This is a simple script to convert a SID to a username

# Returns a username based on a SID
# Author: Ryan Nemeth
# Date: 12/2/2014

$SID = read-host Please enter the SID: 
$object = New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier($SID)
$User = $object.Translate( \[System.Security.Principal.NTAccount\])
write-host The user is:  $User.Value