dscl: generating a list of all users and their GUID's

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dscl: generating a list of all users and their GUID's

Hi,

I am fixing a nightmare in calendar server. I am having to manually re-add all the .ics files to each users shared calendar through iCal. I want to generate a list of users and their GUID's and I think dscl is the right tool. I don't have great bash skills nor can I get dscl to jump through hoops. I can get individual GUID's for a user ussing

# dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1/ -read /Search/Users/username

but waht I would like to do is generate a list of all the users and their GUIDS

Does anyone know how I can do that?

Thanks!

Xserve, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 14, 2012 5:55 PM

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Answer 1

gracoat

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Jun 17, 2012 10:42 PM in response to craigfromco

Well... The exact script... I'll leave to you since it requires a little more experience and length of time spent than I wish to do here.

Here's a thought though...

If the names of your home folders is the same as the user name of your users, then you can get that list of user names into a text file.

ls /Users > folderlist.txt

Have a look at this post I did a while ago... It's primary purpose is to rename a large number of files, but the concept would be the same. It'd be pretty easy to modify the command to show you GUID numbers.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3952761

HTH

-Graham

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Answer 2

Jun 18, 2012 4:56 AM in response to craigfromco

Hi

For the local directory

dscl . -list /Users GeneratedUID

For a shared directory

dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -list /Users GeneratedUID

HTH?

Tony

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