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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Everybody:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I need to add a lot of users to an LDAP system for testing and I would like to do it in batch mode. For my small tests have been doing something like this: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>#!/bin/bash<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'># Script to create a new user.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ipa user-add bigbob \<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> --email=<a href="mailto:bbob@BigBobsEmporium.com">bbob@BigBobsEmporium.com</a> \<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> --first=Bob \<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> --last=Bigg \<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> --password \<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> --setattr=description='The sales guy.' <<-EOF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>b1gB0bsTmpPwd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>b1gB0bsTmpPwd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>EOF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>However, I am python guy and would like to use it instead. I am sure that I can do a similar thing using pexpect in python. Probably something like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'># This code has not been tested. It is only for a thought experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'># Add a user and enter the password using pexpect.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>cmd = "ipa user-add bigbob --email='bbob@BigBobsEmporium."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>cmd += " --first=Bob --last=Bigg --password "<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>cmd += "--setattr=description='The sales guy.'"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>rets = ['Password', 'Enter Password again to verify', pexpect.EOF, pexpect.TIMEOUT]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>c = pexpect.spawn(cmd,timeout=None)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>i = c.expect(rets)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>if i == 0: # Password<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> child.sendline('b1gB0bsTmpPwd')<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> i = c.expect(rets)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> if i == 1: # Enter Password again to verify<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> child.sendline('b1gB0bsTmpPwd')<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> i = c.expect(rets)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> if i == 2:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> print 'SUCCESS'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> else:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> sys.exit('ERROR: something bad happened #1')<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> else:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> sys.exit('ERROR: something bad happened #2')<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>else:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> sys.exit('ERROR: something bad happened #3')<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But I was wondering whether there was a better using the IPA API. Is there a way for me to do that?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>