I need a script that will run on...
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01 Mar 2003
Q.
I need a script that will run on the Novell server to get all the users in the system in order to allow an external service to go through that list and validate users (manual process). The output of my query (users, etc.) should be a delimited file. The information I need for each user is:
Username, Userid, Server Name, Primary Group, Secondary Group, Privilege Level, File Mounts,
and if available the following:
phone number, department and supervisor.
Thanks for any pointers.
A.
You first have to decide whether you want to do this in Perl or in Nscript. Both have some limitations, but they mostly occur only when writing to NDS, and not when retrieving the information. However, from what I can see, you will have less trouble using the UCS/UCX components from Nscript. Personally I prefer Perl. Here's a site with some sample scripts that use UCX: http://www.gknw.de/nwperl/perlucx/
Below is link to a script that you can use to create a user. Retrieving this information is done in a similar way: http://www.gknw.de/nwperl/perlucx/mkuser.txt
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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