Another FID Finder

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By Gene Liedel

Digg This - Slashdot This Posted: 3 Jul 2007

Problem

Getting a list of the FIDs associated with users ...

Solution

Another way to get a FID list is to use the gwcheck.log file generated by using the Audit feature, and then the DOS Find command to search for lines containing the phrase \user. For example,

find /I "\user" gwcheck.log | more

will find those lines, and the "more" option will display them one page at a time. This can also be done with the grep command in Linux.

Here is a sample result:

Audit report for user (Larry) on database GW001\GWPO:\po05\ofuser\userxxo.db
Audit report for user (Moe) on database GW001\GWPO:\po05\ofuser\useryir.db
Audit report for user (Curly) on database GW001\GWPO:\po05\ofuser\useryx4.db

Reader Comments

• Dont forget an old standby... nlist! C:\>nlist user[=xxx] show "ngw: file id", "ngw: post office", "full name", "cn", "ngw: groupwise id" Also, any LDAP search app can pull this info as well as any other attribute stored in the directory. My favorite LDAP Browser is from Softterra: http://www.ldapadministrator.com/ - the browser is free; the administrator is not. Enjoy!

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