[Samba] Listing all users in a remote Samba server

[Necos Secon]

If you're using perl, you could always use the backticks to get the output 
of a command. For example:

my $userlist = `net rpc user -S $server -P $pass`;

or

my @userlist = `net rpc user -S $server -P $pass`;

I forget if the net commands support passing a password to it, but if it 
does, then your job is done. Also, if I recall, the output of net rpc user 
is newline delimited, so you'll have to parse it with a couple of regexes. 
Something like this might work:

my @users;
my $go = 1;
while ($go)
{
  my $temp;
  $temp = ($userlist =~ m/\n/);
  my $chopper = length($temp) + 1;
  reverse($userlist);
  while ($chopper)
  {
    chop($userlist);
    $chopper--;
  }
  reverse($userlist);
  if ( length($userlist) <= 1 )
  {
    $go = 0;
  }
}

Untested and I know the algorithm could be a lot better. But, maybe this'll 
give you some direction.

Theodore Charles III
Network Administrator
Los Angeles High School

&gt;From: Erik Torres Serrano &lt;erik at bioinfo.cu&gt;
&gt;Reply-To: erik at bioinfo.cu
&gt;To: samba at lists.samba.org
&gt;Subject: Re: [Samba] Listing all users in a remote Samba server
&gt;Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:02:22 -0400
&gt;
&gt;Paul Gienger wrote:
&gt;
&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt;&gt;I'm trying to develop a service for retrieving the entire user
&gt;&gt;&gt;list of a remote samba server. The expected result is the same
&gt;&gt;&gt;expected from the use of the samba command:
&gt;&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt;&gt;net rpc user
&gt;&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt;Depending on your backend, there's several ways to go about it,
&gt;&gt;including querying LDAP for the entries with an appropriate filter
&gt;&gt;and parsing the smbpasswd file.  I believe you could also get some
&gt;&gt;info out of pdbedit, but that could be a bit tedious.
&gt;&gt;What is your backend?
&gt;
&gt;Ok, what I have is a standalone Samba server without ADS or LDAP.
&gt;Users are managed in a smbpasswd file. In the other side I have a
&gt;Linux box running webmin. Both servers are in the same LAN. What I
&gt;need is an App to be included in webmin (that's why I need Perl) in
&gt;the second box for listing all users in the Samba server.
&gt;I saw that net command use a RPC request but I didn't find how to do
&gt;the same.
&gt;That's all I have :(
&gt;
&gt;Regards,
&gt;
&gt;Erik
&gt;
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