'Add User' dialogue in 6.7.1 - what's the OS source?

Hi All -
I'm in the process of research on upgrading from 6.1 to 6.7.1, working on a development Solaris server. We're using the default OS authentication.

Here's the general way I'm testing this:
I've created 100 or so new OS users on the machine.
I'd like to then, through the Administration interface, like to add these 100 users from the OS as TeamSite users.
Then, I'd be able to start adding TeamSite groups, and adding the TeamSite users to the TeamSite groups.

Here's the current question:
I'm having a problem with the Search result list the first time I search for a user.

When I open the Add User dialogue in the Admin interface, I'm presented with a search option. If I enter * for a wildcard, I'd expect to get a list of all OS users. I get a handful of users listed, but not all that I'd expect.

The first time I search for a particular user's full Solaris user name, I get a result on that user. For instance, if I search for wbox (My Solaris ID), I get the correct result. But, if I search for wbo* (or other variations with an asterisk), I get no results. I would also get no results if I tried searching for my proper name, such as Walla* (for Wallace).

But after I do an initial sucessful search for my full username (wbox), I then get included in all further wildcard searches. So, later * searches list me in the results.

It seems as if there's some intermediate storage of the search results that are getting queried instead of the OS directly - unless I search for the full Solaris user name (without and wildcards).

How can I get a full list of the OS users displayed in the Add User dialogue without doing individual queries on each of the user's Solaris user name?

Many thanks,
Wally Box
Nike, Inc.

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Icebreaker

Hi Walib,

Not sure of this solution, I may be worng.

Why can't you directly add the users in tsusers.xml. I believe adding an entry via Admin tab will insert a node in the tsusers.xml.

Regards,

Migrateduser

Nice thought, Jay.
I tried that last week while working with another issue. I found later a note in the documentation that said NOT to directly edit that file.

I also found, after I did edit someone in there, that the iwtrace.log file would periodically throw an error saying to delete that user.

In the meanwhile, I wrote a shell script with a bunch of iwuseradm add-user commands to populate the TeamSite users. It worked, but I don't feel it should be necessary.

Wally

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Icebreaker

Weird! the document that I have never say that, but it does say 'No direct manipulation on tsgroups.xml'

Appreciate, if you can help me sending the steps to add users in TS 6.7.1 in Solaris box.

Regards,

Adam Stoller

I'm not sure that the user search handles regex's (correctly?) - instead of doing

wbo*

if you just do

wbo

I believe it might work the first time instead...

I don't have a system to verify that on though ...

Migrateduser

Thanks Fish -
I got all the users added via a CLT / shell script, but it was behaving strangely. Just entering a blank only got -some- of the OS users, that's why I was wondering what the source it was reading from was. It seems like a cached version of /etc/passwd.

Wally

Adam Stoller

Thanks Fish -
I got all the users added via a CLT / shell script, but it was behaving strangely. Just entering a blank only got -some- of the OS users, that's why I was wondering what the source it was reading from was. It seems like a cached version of /etc/passwd.

Wally

If you add users to the system - you should run iwreset (no flags) to force TeamSite to refresh its cache of user/group information - otherwise you have to wait some amount of time (10 minutes?) for it to do it on its own.

Migrateduser

Thanks Fish -
I got all the users added via a CLT / shell script, but it was behaving strangely. Just entering a blank only got -some- of the OS users, that's why I was wondering what the source it was reading from was. It seems like a cached version of /etc/passwd.

Wally

Wally,

I will be doing the 6.1 to 6.7.1 (solaris) migration soon as well.. any chance you want to share your shell script to add the users before I go write my own..

Thanks.

Migrateduser

I'm a novice shell scripter at best - all my script does is exeucute a pile of iwuseradm commands with the add-user option, such as this:

/interwoven/teamsite/bin/iwuseradm add-user juser

I then extracted the email address for all these same folks from LDAP and then ran another script, which were a bunch of iwuseradm commands with the set-email option, like this:

/interwoven/teamsite/bin/iwuseradm set-email acraw1 Joe.User@nike.com

Wally

Migrateduser

Reply to Fish from above:
I did run the iwreset and it worked as advertised. What was confusing was before that and what prompted this thread - only a subset of the OS users showed up in the Add Member search, regardless of iwresets / TeamSite restarts.

But when I did a search for the user's full id, it did come back and, after that, it would be in the results set for wildcard searches.

Wally