Re: Owner/User Name in OSX
Re: Owner/User Name in OSX
- Subject: Re: Owner/User Name in OSX
- From: Phil Dobbin <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:35:18 +0100
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:24:12 -0700, John W Baxter <email@hidden> wrote:
[snip]
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[localhost:/tmp] ....% cat /tmp/n.pl
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
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while (@e = getpwent) {
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print "$e[0] $e[2] $e[6]\n";
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}
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Now...
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do shell script "/tmp/n.pl"
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gives you a string with a user per line (UID order, except for good old
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nobody and her sometimes-negative UID):
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"nobody 4294967294 Unprivileged User
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root 0 System Administrator
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daemon 1 System Services
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unknown 99 Unknown User
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www 70 World Wide Web Server
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..... 501 John Baxter
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..... 502 John W. Baxter
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..... 503 John W Baxter
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..... 504 Mail test"
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Only the first of my users has an "easy" relationship between the short and
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the long name, and none has the default suggested by Apple's code.
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--John (who would actually write Python code, but Python doesn't come
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with Mac OS X)
It does come, however, in a nice binary which can be installed from the command line painlessly (v.2.1.1 - find it at python.org).
Or, of course, if you d/l Fink, you can get the latest bleeding edge version.
Regards,
Phil (who's now veering wildly off-topic ;-)
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