[p4] admin - removing user from multiple groups

[s***@symbian.com]

Hi

Anyone got a Perl or Python script that removes a user from being a
member of multiple groups, its part of a housekeeping excersise, just got
lots to do quickly, and not being a very good script writer at all it'll
take me longer to write it myself than do the work, so thought I'd ask
those that are good, or may have one already :-)

Many thanks

Sally Page
Configuration Management Engineer, Delivery Services
Symbian Software (UK) Ltd
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Mobile: [phone]



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[Weintraub, David]

Here's a simple shell script that counts the number of groups each user
is in:

p4 users | awk '{print $1}' | while read user
do
printf "User %s: " $user
p4 groups $user | wc -l
done

The question I have is what if you find a user is in more than one
group? Which group do they stay in? Anyway, this will give you a start.

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Subject: [p4] admin - removing user from multiple groups

Hi

Anyone got a Perl or Python script that removes a user from being a
member of multiple groups, its part of a housekeeping excersise, just
got lots to do quickly, and not being a very good script writer at all
it'll take me longer to write it myself than do the work, so thought I'd
ask those that are good, or may have one already :-)

Many thanks

Sally Page
Configuration Management Engineer, Delivery Services Symbian Software
(UK) Ltd
Direct: [phone]
Mobile: [phone]



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[Jamison, Shawn]

Well, Yes!
Both of these came from this forum.

I have modified them a little for my needs so you will have to muddle with them to suit you.

One warning. Backup your current group definitions if they are not already in a UserSpec depot.

-Shawn J>


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Subject: [p4] admin - removing user from multiple groups


Hi

Anyone got a Perl or Python script that removes a user from being a
member of multiple groups, its part of a housekeeping excersise, just got
lots to do quickly, and not being a very good script writer at all it'll
take me longer to write it myself than do the work, so thought I'd ask
those that are good, or may have one already :-)

Many thanks

Sally Page
Configuration Management Engineer, Delivery Services
Symbian Software (UK) Ltd
Direct: [phone]
Mobile: [phone]



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[Wright, Richard]

By the way, if you are using a recent version of Perforce (2004.2+, I
believe), you can count how many groups a user is in with the following:

p4 -ztag groups | grep user | sort | uniq -c

For anyone looking to attack this problem or similar problems, take a look a
the -ztag (or -G or -R for Python or Ruby) output of p4 groups in the recent
servers. You can get a great deal of info out of it quickly.

-Rick

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Subject: Re: [p4] admin - removing user from multiple groups


Here's a simple shell script that counts the number of groups each user
is in:

p4 users | awk '{print $1}' | while read user
do
printf "User %s: " $user
p4 groups $user | wc -l
done

The question I have is what if you find a user is in more than one
group? Which group do they stay in? Anyway, this will give you a start.

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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:27 AM
To: perforce-***@perforce.com
Subject: [p4] admin - removing user from multiple groups

Hi

Anyone got a Perl or Python script that removes a user from being a
member of multiple groups, its part of a housekeeping excersise, just
got lots to do quickly, and not being a very good script writer at all
it'll take me longer to write it myself than do the work, so thought I'd
ask those that are good, or may have one already :-)

Many thanks

Sally Page
Configuration Management Engineer, Delivery Services Symbian Software
(UK) Ltd
Direct: [phone]
Mobile: [phone]



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[Noah Salzman]

Post by s***@symbian.com
Anyone got a Perl or Python script that removes a user from being a
member of multiple groups, its part of a housekeeping excersise, just got
lots to do quickly, and not being a very good script writer at all it'll
take me longer to write it myself than do the work, so thought I'd ask
those that are good, or may have one already :-)

Will you take a shell script?


#!/bin/sh

DEL_USER=$1
TMP_FILE=/tmp/p4_group_tmp
RC=1
p4 groups > $TMP_FILE

echo ""
echo "WARNING: This script will delete user '$DEL_USER' from all
groups."
echo ""
echo "Type 'n' to get a list of groups for '$DEL_USER' and do nothing
else."
echo "Type 'y' to actually delete '$DEL_USER' from each group."

read RESPONSE

if [ "x$RESPONSE" != "xy" ]; then
echo ""
echo "No changes were made."
echo "Here are the groups that contain '$DEL_USER':"

while read LINE
do
p4 group -o $LINE | grep $DEL_USER > /dev/null
RC=$?
if [ $RC -eq 0 ]; then
echo $LINE
fi
done < $TMP_FILE
echo ""
exit 0
else
while read LINE
do
p4 group -o $LINE | grep $DEL_USER > /dev/null
RC=$?
if [ $RC -eq 0 ]; then
echo ""
echo "Deleting '$DEL_USER' from group $LINE ..."
p4 group -o $LINE | sed s/$DEL_USER// | p4 group -i
fi
done < $TMP_FILE

echo ""
exit 0
fi

#end

[Noah Salzman]

There was a bug in the first posting of the script where grep would
match on "jsmithe" when you had specified "jsmith". I changed it to
egrep. Doh!

Here is version 2:


#!/bin/sh

DEL_USER=$1
TMP_FILE=/tmp/p4_group_tmp
RC=1
p4 groups > $TMP_FILE

echo ""
echo "WARNING: This script will delete user '$DEL_USER' from all
groups."
echo ""
echo "Type 'n' to get a list of groups for '$DEL_USER' and do nothing
else."
echo "Type 'y' to actually delete '$DEL_USER' from each group."

read RESPONSE

if [ "x$RESPONSE" != "xy" ]; then
echo ""
echo "No changes were made."
echo "Here are the groups that contain '$DEL_USER':"

while read LINE
do
p4 group -o $LINE | egrep "^.$DEL_USER$" > /dev/null
RC=$?
if [ $RC -eq 0 ]; then
echo $LINE
fi
done < $TMP_FILE
echo ""
exit 0
else
while read LINE
do
p4 group -o $LINE | egrep "^.$DEL_USER$" > /dev/null
RC=$?
if [ $RC -eq 0 ]; then
echo ""
echo "Deleting '$DEL_USER' from group $LINE ..."
p4 group -o $LINE | sed s/$DEL_USER// | p4 group -i
fi
done < $TMP_FILE

echo ""
exit 0
fi

#end

[Ivey, William]

Yeah, ztag is cool. I was playing around with it a while back to
check my groups and used this line (one line no matter what
word wrap thinks):

p4 -ztag groups | sed -n -e "/^\.\.\. user/!d;s|^\.\.\. user ||;N;s|\n\.\.\. group | : |;p" | sort

(escape the ! as \! for c shells, works from the command prompt on
Windows if you have a sed in your path)

That just gives me a list sorted by user that looks like:

admingroup : buildgroup
admingroup : devgroup
albert : buildgroup
albert : devgroup
whivey : admingroup
xeno : devgroup
etc.

Note that "user" can be another group as well as a real user.
filtering that out is left as an exercise for the less lazy.

-Wm

Post by Weintraub, David
-----Original Message-----
By the way, if you are using a recent version of Perforce (2004.2+, I
believe), you can count how many groups a user is in with the
p4 -ztag groups | grep user | sort | uniq -c

[Tetlow, Gordon]

If you just want to see what groups the person is in, p4 groups
<username> works much easier.

-gordon

Post by Weintraub, David
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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [p4] admin - removing user from multiple groups

Post by s***@symbian.com
Anyone got a Perl or Python script that removes a user from being a
member of multiple groups, its part of a housekeeping excersise,
just got
lots to do quickly, and not being a very good script writer at all
it'll
take me longer to write it myself than do the work, so

thought I'd ask

Post by s***@symbian.com
those that are good, or may have one already :-)

Will you take a shell script?
#!/bin/sh
DEL_USER=$1
TMP_FILE=/tmp/p4_group_tmp
RC=1
p4 groups > $TMP_FILE
echo ""
echo "WARNING: This script will delete user '$DEL_USER' from all
groups."
echo ""
echo "Type 'n' to get a list of groups for '$DEL_USER' and do
nothing
else."
echo "Type 'y' to actually delete '$DEL_USER' from each group."
read RESPONSE
if [ "x$RESPONSE" != "xy" ]; then
echo ""
echo "No changes were made."
echo "Here are the groups that contain '$DEL_USER':"
while read LINE
do
p4 group -o $LINE | grep $DEL_USER > /dev/null
RC=$?
if [ $RC -eq 0 ]; then
echo $LINE
fi
done < $TMP_FILE
echo ""
exit 0
else
while read LINE
do
p4 group -o $LINE | grep $DEL_USER > /dev/null
RC=$?
if [ $RC -eq 0 ]; then
echo ""
echo "Deleting '$DEL_USER' from group $LINE ..."
p4 group -o $LINE | sed s/$DEL_USER// |
p4 group -i
fi
done < $TMP_FILE
echo ""
exit 0
fi
#end
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[Noah Salzman]

Post by Tetlow, Gordon
If you just want to see what groups the person is in, p4 groups
<username> works much easier.

That's funny. I made it much harder than it needed to be. However,
for the delete part you'll still need some minimal loop.

[Robert Cowham]

Post by Tetlow, Gordon
If you just want to see what groups the person is in, p4
groups <username> works much easier.

Note that this isn't recursive which would be nice - though not relevant to
the point at hand:

P4 groups fred
Grp1

P4 groups grp1
Grp2

Would be nice perhaps to have a "p4 groups -a" option which showed group
membership recursively. (have raised support call)

Robert