Is there a "master" list of all login variables that can be used in login scripts?
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Mar 1997
Q.
Dear Ab-end: s there a "master" list of all login variables that can be used in login scripts? Any help would be appreciated.
--Variable-Obsessed in Vancouver
A.
Dear Variable: Randy Cook at Novell provides the following list, taken from the NetWare GUI Login Design Specification version 1.1 Draft 0.5 dated August 1996.
DAY - Day number (01 through 31)
DAY_OF_WEEK - Day of week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
MONTH - Month number (01 through 12)
MONTH_NAME - Month Name (January, February, etc.)
NDAY_OF_WEEK - Weekday number (1 through 7, with 1=Sunday)
SHORT_YEAR - Last two digits of year (93, 94, 95, etc.)
YEAR - All four digits of year (1993, 1994, 1995, etc.)
AM_PM - Day or night (am or pm)
GREETING_TIME - Time of day (morning, afternoon, or evening)
HOUR - 24 Hour (24-hour scale; 00 through 23, 00=midnight)
MINUTE - Minute (00 through 59)
SECOND - Second (00 through 59)
FILE_SERVER - NetWare server name
NETWORK_ADDRESS - Network number of the cabling system (8-digit hexadecimal number)
FULL_NAME - User's complete name in the Directory context, or full name in bindery-based NetWare
LAST_NAME - User's last name (surname) in NDS, or full name in bindery-based NetWare
LOGIN_NAME - User's unique login name. (Long names are truncated to eight characters)
MEMBER OF "group" - Group object that the user is assigned to.
NOT MEMBER OF "group" - Group object that the user isn't assigned to.
PASSWORD_EXPIRES - Number of days before password expires.
USER_ID - Number assigned to each user.
MACHINE - Type of computer (IBM_PC, etc.). (Not available for OS/2.)
NETWARE_REQUESTER - Version of the NetWare Requester for OS/2 (2.01, etc.)
OS - Type of DOS on the workstation (DRDOS, MSDOS, etc.)
P_STATION - Workstation's node address (12-digit hex)
SHELL_TYPE - Version of the workstation's DOS shell (1.02, etc.). Supports NetWare 2 and NetWare 3 shells and NetWare 4 Requester for DOS.
SMACHINE - Short machine name (IBM, etc.); not available under OS/2.
STATION - Workstation's connection number.
ACCESS_SERVER - Shows whether the access server is functional (TRUE=functional, FALSE=not functional)
ERROR_LEVEL - An error number (0=No errors)
<variable< - Any DOS environment variable can be used in angle brackets (<path<, etc.). To use a DOS environment variable in a MAP command, add a percent sign (%) in front of the variable, such as MAP S16:=%<path<.
%n - Replaced by parameters the user enters at the command line with the LOGIN utility.
property name - You can use any property of NDS objects as a variable. Use the property's name just as you do any other identifier variable. If the propery name includes a space, enclose the name in quotation marks.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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