samba - Apr 2005 - Listing all users in a remote Samba server

Hi,

I'm trying to develop a service for retrieving the entire user list of a 
remote samba server. The expected result is the same expected from the 
use of the samba command:

net rpc user

The service is coupled with one only request: should be written using 
Perl language. I have search at the internet and I have read a lot of 
documentation but I have no idea on how should I do it. Any clue or 
comment will be welcome.

Best regards,

Erik

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:10:09PM -0400, Erik Torres Serrano
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to develop a service for retrieving the entire user list of
a
> remote samba server. The expected result is the same expected from the 
> use of the samba command:
> 
> net rpc user
> 
> The service is coupled with one only request: should be written using 
> Perl language. I have search at the internet and I have read a lot of 
> documentation but I have no idea on how should I do it. Any clue or 
> comment will be welcome.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Erik
If the passdb is in LDAP you could query the directory directly 
via Net::LDAP.

-- 
Steve Feehan

> I'm trying to develop a service for retrieving the entire user list of 
> a remote samba server. The expected result is the same expected from 
> the use of the samba command:
>
> net rpc user
>
Depending on your backend, there's several ways to go about it, 
including querying LDAP for the entries with an appropriate filter and 
parsing the smbpasswd file.  I believe you could also get some info out 
of pdbedit, but that could be a bit tedious. 

What is your backend?
> The service is coupled with one only request: should be written using 
> Perl language. I have search at the internet and I have read a lot of 
> documentation but I have no idea on how should I do it. Any clue or 
> comment will be welcome.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Erik
>
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