All members of nested groups?

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All members of nested groups?

Hi,

How do I get all members of say the group 'users', including those that are members of the subgroup 'guest users'? I need it for a script, so command line solutions are preferable.

/Fredrik

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Feb 22, 2008 5:05 AM

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Beams

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Feb 25, 2008 9:22 AM in response to Dargosch

OK, here is a terminal command that will get the members of a group Users

dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 read /Groups/Users Member (This will give you the members of the group)

Then you will want to get the Nested Groups

dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 read /Groups/Users NestedGroups (This will give you the UID of all the nested groups)

Then you will want to match the UID to the group for each nested group

dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 search /Groups NestedGroups <insert nested group UID>

onve you have the values of each nested group you can get the users of that nested group

dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 read /Groups/<insert nested group name> Member (This will give you the members of the group)

Hope this helps.

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