RT Command Line adding users

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:49:09 +0000

A while a go I needed to add a whole raft of users (about 400 or so ) to our work RT system. Doing this manually had little appeal so I was looking for a scriptable way of doing it.

I found a script on the wiki ( wiki.bestpractical.com ) but it only supported populating RT from /etc/passwd entires. So close and yet… so with a pointer or two from Bunty, my handy online Perl guru friend I managed to use the existing script and bodge it to allow command line arguements

#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # rtadduser: add a local user to RT # David Maze # $Id$ # Poorly modified by Tig to accept commandline arguments # Known issues, will silently fail if a user already exists


BEGIN{

        push @INC,"/usr/share/request-tracker3.6/lib/";

}

use lib "/usr/uns/lib";

use strict;

use English;

use RT::Interface::CLI qw(CleanEnv);

use RT::User;

use Getopt::Long;
my ($user, $passwd, $email);
GetOptions (

        "user=s" => \$user,

        "email=s" => \$email,

        "passwd=s" => \$passwd

);
CleanEnv();

RT::LoadConfig();

RT::Init();
print("Creating user with the following variables\n");

print("user : $user\n");

print("e-mail : $email\n");

print("password : $passwd\n");
my $UserObj = new RT::User(RT::SystemUser);

$UserObj->Create(Name => $user,

                 EmailAddress => "$email",

                 Privileged => 1,

                 Password => $passwd

                );

print("If there was no error it possibly worked!\n");

To use this you will need Getopt::Long installed, usage is :

perl rtadduser -user=username -email=user@foo.com -passwd=secretpassword

Oh and you will need to poke line 10 (the one with the path to RT.pm) for your distro.

I will put this onto the wiki soon, just needed to dump it somewhere indexable before I forget about it

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RT Command Line adding users