[rt-users] How to enumerate users

[Ruediger Riediger]

Ruslan U. Zakirov wrote:
>> we want to enumerate (regularly) all users existing in RT3.0.12 to 
>> refresh the information (work phone, address, etc) from an LDAP server.
>> Obviously, a "/opt/rt3/bin/rt show user/1-9999" would do, but it would 
>> be very resource intensive %-)
>>
>> Is there a way to pull all users, one at a time?
> 
> As far as I understand your task, then you don't want to pull info from RT.
> You require CLI that allow you update users info. And script that 
> fetches info from LDAP and execute script that updates user record.
> 
> Small example that updates user info:
> 
> ...
> use RT::User;
> my $u_obj = RT::User->new( $RT::SystemUser );
> $u_obj->Load( 'foo at example.com' );
> die "No user" unless( $u_obj->id );
> 
> $u_obj->Set( Field => 'RealName', Value => 'Foo Z. Bar' );
> ...

Close to it. How do we know which users to load? We do not want to go 
over all what is in LDAP but rather each user in RT, like

for ($i=1; $i++; ...)
{
	$u_obj->Load( $i );
	next unless ($u_obj->id)
}

The problem is: how to run through all users while skipping the gaps. 
And as there are gaps, when to stop?

Best regards,

	Ruediger Riediger

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