From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-04-25T11:12:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Retrieving Groups from a DSQUERY

From: anon1m0us [mailto:anon1m0us@yahoo.com] :
# I need a list of all the groups a user is part of. When I do the
# DSQuery in returns a bunch of groups. I need to capture the group
# names.
# All groups start with CN=group name and end with a comma.
# How to I capture the group name only, which starts after CN= and ends
# at the FIRST comma??

small world ;)

look into "dsquery group" and "dsget group <group_name> -members"

C:\family\ruby\win-ds-groups>cat test.rb
#######################
# botp
# updated: 2007 03 21
#######################

# get all internet groups w names like "internet mail or internetusers"
groups=`dsquery group -limit 1000 | egrep -i "internet(users| mail)"`

len = groups.max.length + 20  # not important; just want to get length for
header line separator

# display groups and the count
groups.each_with_index do |g,i|
   puts "-"*len
   puts "Group #{i+1}: #{g}"
   puts "-"*len

   # for each group get the members
   members = `dsget group #{g} -members`

   # for each member display name and the count
   members.each_with_index do |m,i|
      name = m.sub ",CN=Users,DC=delmonte-phil,DC=com\"", ""
      name = name.sub "\"CN=", ""
      name = name.sub "\\", ""
      puts "#{i+1}: #{name}"
   end
end
#------------------

hth.
kind regards -botp