I think that what Jim has done is more than sufficient for 2009.06, but I do
agree we need a better solution since it's looking like Users & Groups is taking
on a life of it's own - it was expected that all the GST tools were a short-term
solution until Visual Panels integrated, but it's looking like user admin isn't
happening soon.
For a longer term solution, I believe that we shouldn't be writing a new C
program - we should be using a perl binding to libsecdb to allow us to call this
function from perl - this could also be a private i/f if necessary.
(I've an example below that works for me )
Darren.
---- Attempt to generate a binding ---
I tried this out on snv_112, and I was able to fairly easily generate a binding
for getuserattr() with SWIG (/bin/swig):
1) Create interface file - user_attr.i - containing:
%module user_attr
%{
#include "secdb.h"
#include "user_attr.h"
%}
%include "secdb.h"
%include "user_attr.h"
2) Generate perl bindings:
$ swig -I/usr/include -perl5 user_attr.i
3) Compile and Link to a .so:
$ cc -c user_attr_wrap.c `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts`
$ ld -G user_attr_wrap.o -o user_attr.so -lsecdb
4) Use it:
use user_attr;
$uattr = user_attr::getusernam( "root" );
printf( "Name: %s\n", $uattr->{name});
printf( "Attr: length = %d\n", $uattr->{attr}->{length});
printf( "Attr: %s = %s\n", "roles",
user_attr::kva_match($uattr->{attr}, "roles" ) );
printf( "Attr: %s = %s\n", profiles,
user_attr::kva_match($uattr->{attr}, "profiles" ) );
printf( "\n" );
Which output:
Name: root
Attr: length = 5
Attr: roles =
Attr: profiles = Web Console Management,All
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On 29/04/2009 19:42, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Jim:
>
> There is a C-interface called getuserattr(3SECDB) which allows you
> to easily access user_attr values. Wouldn't it be better to use this
> rather than try to parse the file directly?
>
> Perhaps it would be good to write a small C-program to get the data
> you need and use it to get the data you need?
>
> Brian
>
>
>> The backend cann't get the correct user's profiles, cause 'profiles
>> $name' command has change it's format of output. This patch get an
>> user's profiles by directly parsing /etc/user_attr file instead of using
>> profiles command.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Jim
>
