[Pythonmac-SIG] Users and groups module

[Jack Jansen]

On 8-jan-04, at 19:22, Rick.Termath wrote:
> I am working on a script to gather resource use etc on our ASIP OS9 
> Servers, and I have been unable to find a module that can talk to the 
> users and groups. I am trying to gather information on student logins 
> to the servers, in users and groups a "last login" date is displayed 
> and I am trying to find a way to pull that information (if possible), 
> any help, tips, pointers or suggestions would be appreciated.

If you can obtain the information with an AppleScript program you 
should be able to run gensuitemodule on the relevant application (or 
control panel, or whatever) and get a Python interface to it. If you 
cannot get the information in AppleScript you'd have to create a C 
module to interface to the relevant APIs, assuming there are such APIs.

The former should be fairly simple, the latter is complicated.

As always, your best bet for questions like this is to ask on the 
pythonmac-SIG. Even though you may be the first person to attempt this 
specific interface there'll usually be people who have helpful 
insights, etc.
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