Re: Listusers command
Re: Listusers command
- Subject: Re: Listusers command
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:30:31 +0100
On 9 mars 05, at 05:45, Chuck Gagnon wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate way to do this, but for ease
and compatibility with the various flavors of unix I administer at
work I wrote this code.
It is basically a work alike to the SYSV command of the same name (man
page included), with no arguments it lists all users in a sorted list
showing username and comment (gecos) field. the to options are [ -l
users ] to list specific users and or [ -g groups ] to list all users
in the given group(s). Users are defined as ID's with a uid greater
than 99.
We have a lot of scripts that made use of this command on Solaris and
HP-UX, and I couldn't find a similar command in the BSD world.
It is under a BSD style license.
Code is at:
http://homepage.mac.com/gagnocg/downloads/listusers.zip
Hum, I'm not sure it would work correctly on OS X in every case.
AFAIK, the only safe way to have the correct list of users is to use
the Directory Services API. But I can be wrong.
The real difficult part with the Directory Services API IMHO is that
the APIs are a bit strange from a spelling point of view (Bug filed on
this matter and closed as duplicate)
Happily, a SDK (not provided with the DevTools) exists at
http://developer.apple.com/sdk/ and contains a really good sample code
showing how to list users.
My $0.02
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