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NEX-1767 ls is unable to display SIDs
Reviewed by: Gordon Ross <gordon.ross@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Evan Layton <evan.layton@nexenta.com>
        
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@
 .\"
 .\"
 .\" Copyright 1989 AT&T
 .\" Portions Copyright (c) 1992, X/Open Company Limited All Rights Reserved
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved
-.\" Copyright 2014 Nexenta Systems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 2016 Nexenta Systems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
 .\"
-.TH LS 1 "Nov 24, 2014"
+.TH LS 1 "Jul 01, 2016"
 .SH NAME
 ls \- list contents of directory
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .LP
 .nf
@@ -1186,11 +1186,16 @@
 \fB\fB--numeric-uid-gid\fR\fR
 .ad
 .sp .6
 .RS 4n
 The same as \fB-l\fR, except that the owner's \fBUID\fR and group's \fBGID\fR
-numbers are printed, rather than the associated character strings.
+numbers are printed, rather than the associated character strings. Files for
+which owner and/or group is a Windows Security Identifier (\fBSID\fR), \fB-n\fR
+suppresses any lookups for the Windows Name string and prints only the raw SID.
+Moreover, a second instance of this flag (\fB-nn\fR) can be used to further
+suppress \fBidmapd\fR(1M) lookups of the file's owner and/or group SID, thus
+forcing \fBls\fR into printing the raw ephemeral numeric identifiers.
 .RE
 
 .sp
 .ne 2
 .na
@@ -2815,11 +2820,12 @@
 \fB--size\fR, and \fB--time-style\fR, see \fBstandards\fR(5).
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .LP
 \fBchmod\fR(1), \fBcp\fR(1), \fBsetfacl\fR(1), \fBfgetattr\fR(3C),
 \fBstrftime\fR(3C), \fBterminfo\fR(4), \fBacl\fR(5), \fBattributes\fR(5),
-\fBenviron\fR(5), \fBfsattr\fR(5), \fBlargefile\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)
+\fBenviron\fR(5), \fBfsattr\fR(5), \fBlargefile\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5),
+\fBidmapd\fR(1M)
 .SH NOTES
 .LP
 Unprintable characters in file names can confuse the columnar output options.
 .sp
 .LP
@@ -2830,5 +2836,10 @@
 overridden by the \fBLC_COLLATE\fR environment variable. For example, if
 \fBLC_COLLATE\fR equals \fBC\fR, dot files appear first, followed by names
 beginning with upper-case letters, then followed by names beginning with
 lower-case letters. But if \fBLC_COLLATE\fR equals \fBen_US.ISO8859-1\fR, then
 leading dots as well as case are ignored in determining the sort order.
+.sp
+.LP
+For additional information regarding Windows Security Identifiers, consult
+Microsoft support document, \fIWell-known security identifiers in Windows
+operating systems\fR, which can be found at Microsoft's support site: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/243330/.