Topic: How to create account or import account by scripts?

[cityexplorer]

Any one know how to create account by script?

I have 300+ users information in delimited text and want to create account on SME r7.0.

Tried the lazy admin tookit but it gave errors.. I think it works with v6 only...

Please help. Thanks.

[byte]

This is for SME 7.x

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver//contribs/jbennett/sme7/lat/

[cityexplorer]

Just tried... it works for most cases..

Except it will gives errors when the login name is longer than 12 characters (v7 support up to 31 characters i guess), and it won't works with group name with "."

Thanks.

This is for SME 7.x

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver//contribs/jbennett/sme7/lat/

[raem]

cityexplorer

> it will gives errors when the login name is longer than 12 characters
> (v7 support up to 31 characters i guess)

These will show you lot's of settings

config show

config show |more

These will show you the specific settings you are interested in

config show maxAcctNameLength

config show maxGroupNameLength

config show maxIbayNameLength

for usage to set a different length do
db

[cityexplorer]

I think the problem is lazy toolkit doesn't support the new longer login name, group name with "." characher and alias with full domain name.

I don't want to change the default setting of SME v7...

[jonic]

I can confirm that, lazy admin and user names longer than 12 letters, didn't work for me either.

[byte]

I can confirm that, lazy admin and user names longer than 12 letters, didn't work for me either.

But did you change the SME Server settings to allow  > 12 as per Ray's post?

[jonic]

But did you change the SME Server settings to allow > 12 as per Ray's post?

No, I didn't, I assumed that since I was able to add usernames longer than 12 letters through server-manager, it would work with lazy admin too (without any additional db settings), but it appears I was wrong.

[byte]

No, I didn't, I assumed that since I was able to add usernames longer than 12 letters through server-manager,

Ok thats becasue the default allowed is 31 letters

it would work with lazy admin too (without any additional db settings), but it appears I was wrong.

If it doesn't work as you say with the lazy admin tool then please raise a bug against the contrib.

[mrjhb3]

If it doesn't work as you say with the lazy admin tool then please raise a bug against the contrib.

No, please don't do that, download the SRPM and make the appropriate changes.  I do not plan on maintaining this RPM.  I contacted the original author of this package to see if he was going to update it for SME 7, but never received an answer, so I changed it so that it would work with SME 7.  It needs some work as it's still using the old API calls as well.

John Bennett

[jonic]

No, please don't do that, download the SRPM and make the appropriate changes.

I would be glad to do this, but I am still new to SME Server, and the whole template & database settings thing. Maybe after I go through the developers guide and get more experience with it.

[mrjhb3]

I would be glad to do this, but I am still new to SME Server, and the whole template & database settings thing. Maybe after I go through the developers guide and get more experience with it.

Great, you will learn a lot of the SME Server structure if you download and install the SRPM.  In the developer's guide it recommends to use mezzanine, which IMO, makes creating and updating an rpm much easier.  Good luck and I will help as much as I can.

John Bennett

[mrjhb3]

I know I said I don't want to maintain this rpm, which I still don't, but I believe I have corrected the error.  I was able to create a user with 31 characters, and got an error when I tried to create one with 32 characters.

It will be here http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs//jbennett/sme7/lat/ once the mirrors sync.

smeserver-lazy_admin_tools-0.9.1-2.noarch.rpm

John Bennett

[jonic]

Thank you, it would've taken me a long time to correct the problem. I still got a lot to learn about SME, and linux in general.