[Casper] Using $1, $2, $3 etc...

[Clinton Blackmore]

Page 170 of the Casper Suite 6.0 Documentation.pdf talks about scripts  
briefly, and refers you to the example scripts.  The example scripts  
that come with Casper (they would've been in the original installation  
DMG) show that $3 is the current user (although it is only populated  
if the script is called at login or logoff.)

The 'w' and 'who' commands will give the users who are currently  
logged in.  I think

who | grep console | cut -d " " -f 1

will probably be the best way to get a list of all users logged in  
graphically.


As for getting a list of all users who have accounts on the machine,  
if they are all in the Users folder, you could do something like this:

for USER in `ls /Users` ; do echo $USER ; done


If your users aren't all in the Users folder, you probably have to  
move on to using dscl, and it'll take a bit more effort.

Lastly, Casper has facilities to "Fill User Templates" (FUT) and "Fill  
Existing Users" (FEU), which helps if you need to create or modify a  
file for all users.  Or, to really make use of the $3 parameter, you  
should create a script that runs at login, scheduled to run once for  
each user.

I hope this answers your question.

Cheers,
Clinton


On 10-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Dorey, Dustin wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is documentation anywhere on Using $1, $2,  
> $3 in scripts to cycle through the users etc….   I know this has  
> been discussed a bit before but in digging around the KB and the  
> resource kit I can find it in use but would like to review an  
> documentation available.  I’ve got to make some scripts to deal with  
> some imaging issues we had previously and being able to cycle  
> through all the existing users would be of great help.
> Thanks folks, I’m sure I’m missing something easy.    Still  
> adjusting to this daylight savings time thing can’t get the brain  
> working right this week.
> -Dusty-
>
> Dustin  Dorey
> Technology Support Cluster Specialist
> ISD 196 Apple Valley, Eagan, Rosemount
> dustin.dorey at district196.org
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