How to find MAC address and uids?

[Daniel T.]

I'm writing a script for work and to finnish it, I need two bits of
information which I'm having trouble finding.

1) How can I programatically find the MAC address of the machine? Is it
stored in a file I can look into? (MacOS X)

2) If I have a user name in a string how do I get his UID?

Thanks to anyone that can help.

[Marcin Jurczuk]

Re: How to find MAC address and uids?

On 2004-11-10, Daniel T. <postmaster@ear thlink.net> wrote:
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> 1) How can I programatically find the MAC address of the machine? Is it
> stored in a file I can look into? (MacOS X)[/color]
What is syntax of this file ??
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> 2) If I have a user name in a string how do I get his UID?[/color]
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import pwd
>>> pwd.getpwnam('s pock')[/color][/color][/color]
('spock', 'x', 100, 101, '', '/export/home/spock', '/bin/bash')[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> pwd.getpwnam('s pock')[2][/color][/color][/color]
100[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]


--
Marcin Jurczuk, NIC-HDL: MJ1679-RIPE

[Marcin Jurczuk]

Re: How to find MAC address and uids?

On 2004-11-10, Marcin Jurczuk <mj-usunto@tkb.pl> wrote:[color=blue]
> On 2004-11-10, Daniel T. <postmaster@ear thlink.net> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> 1) How can I programatically find the MAC address of the machine? Is it
>> stored in a file I can look into? (MacOS X)[/color]
> What is syntax of this file ??[/color]
My Mistake :)
If you have access to /sbin/ifconfig (if MacOS X is FreeBSD based it should
be in /sbin) you can use something like this:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> import os
>>> a=os.popen('/sbin/ifconfig bge0|grep ether').read(). replace('\n','' ).split()[1]
>>> print a[/color][/color][/color]
00:30:84:b3:b3: 3a[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

Important - replace bge0 your card name ...
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>[color=green]
>> 2) If I have a user name in a string how do I get his UID?[/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> import pwd
>>>> pwd.getpwnam('s pock')[/color][/color]
> ('spock', 'x', 100, 101, '', '/export/home/spock', '/bin/bash')[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> pwd.getpwnam('s pock')[2][/color][/color]
> 100[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>>[/color][/color]
>
>[/color]


--
Marcin Jurczuk, NIC-HDL: MJ1679-RIPE

[James Weatherley]

Re: How to find MAC address and uids?

In article <postmaster-718ADE.06591510 112004@news1.ea st.earthlink.ne t>,
postmaster@eart hlink.net says...[color=blue]
> I'm writing a script for work and to finnish it, I need two bits of
> information which I'm having trouble finding.
>
> 1) How can I programatically find the MAC address of the machine? Is it
> stored in a file I can look into? (MacOS X)[/color]

$ ifconfig | grep ether | awk {'print $2'}
Note that there may be 0, 1 or many MAC addresses.
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> 2) If I have a user name in a string how do I get his UID?[/color]

This gets the uid for 'james':
$ nireport . /users name uid | grep james | awk '{print $2}'

[Mike Hall]

Re: How to find MAC address and uids?

Daniel T. wrote:
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>2) If I have a user name in a string how do I get his UID?[/color]

"man getpwnam" might help you find an answer.