Quick script that will allow you to add a user from the Command Line
Get the script from the Downloads section.This script leverages the dsimporexport command to create an import file and then import it to either the NetInfo or the LDAP domain on your server.
To create a user with a shortname of “joel”, a long name of “Joel Rennich” a password of “test”, and a home on “www.afp548.com” you’d use this:
adduser -s joel -n "Joel Rennich" -h www.afp548.com -p test
That will generate a dsimportexport file at /tmp/importfile.txt that you can then load into Workgroup Manager.
To do this all at once you can use this:
adduser -s joel -n "Joel Rennich" -h www.afp548.com -p test -L -A adminuser
Which will prompt for your admin password and then import the dsimportexport file into the LDAP database on the server.
The script is pretty heavily commented, so take a look at it for in depth usage information. Keep in mind that this script assumes that Workgroup Manager is in /Applications/Server. If it isn’t adjust the script as necessary.
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This script returned errors. So I made some changes and got it to work. You
can get the modified script at:
http://manuel.noriegaonline.com/files/adduser
Sorry Manuel, been meaning to update the one in the downloads
section.
Thanks for your improvements.
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Changing the world, one server at a time.
Joel Rennich
http://www.afp548.com
Many thanks to Josh and Manuel. This scripts saved me a LOT of time.
Manuel’s additions of MAIL, QUOTA, etc. are a godsend.
Manuel chose to have FULL NAME always be the same as SHORT NAME
bypassing the check for FULL NAME. If you leave full name off, the script is
already set up to use Short name.
I revised the script to allow for FULL NAME to differ as well as changed the
check on whether FULL NAME is set. This now allows for full names with
spaces in them. We use "user – domain.com", for example, as our full
names.
Updated script is here:
http://www.spinhost.ca/downloads/adduser
Glad that it helped.
I’ve been meaning to make the mail optional. Since as it stands the script always
puts it in.
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Changing the world, one server at a time.
Joel Rennich
http://www.afp548.com
Some people (namely, I) still have a need for this app. When I tried to use it, I found that some of the feature were inadvertently removed during mods. So I’m doing my part to bring it back to life. I tried to reactivate the lost features, as well as expanding it a touch., I added a parameter to allow appending to a file so that you can batch the import process and create one file to import via wgm. Also allowed for creating the home dirs in another location.
The file has been posted in the files section.
Thanks for giving me an interesting challenge to start shell programming!
bob
I also posted the file at http://www.mtwebservices.com/downloads/adduser.sh.txt .