For those who are interested, I’ve managed to write a .sh script which loops through each user in my NetInfo database and…

1) Checks if a “Mail” tag already exists.
2) if not, attempts to add one.

This is working, however I needed to run it several times. Seems to have an error when attempting to add the tag “access denied”.
If I run again, some users with the error are updated okay.
I’ve managed to get to about 95% of my 1000+ users done.
If I manually add the user, no problems. just in the script.

still, I’ll live. better than on 5%

cheers,

Kent.

Sorry, was at home when I posted my reply. I’ve included the script below. Any feedback on why only works for some users would be greatly appreciated.

cheers,

Kent.
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#!bin/sh

#Get all users in our NetInfo Database
userList=`niutil -list / /users | cut -d” ” -f2`

#loop through each user
flag=
for userName in ${userList}
do

# Check to see if “mail” entry already exists
exists=`niutil -read / /users/$userName | grep “mail: $userName”`
result=`expr “$exists” : ‘.*’`

if (expr $result = 0)
then
# only create if doesn’t already exist
niutil -createprop / /users/$userName mail ${userName}@mmc.school.nz
echo “created $exists – $result”
fi
done

exit 0