topic Re: Wildcards for Delete Users From Management Console in API / CLI Discussion

Wildcards for Delete Users From Management Console

Tom_Teichert — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:28:26 GMT

I want to automatically delete users (administrators) from the Smartconsole "Manage & Settings" -> "Permissions & Administrators" -> Administrators.

I know i can use a script with mgmt-cli delete administrator uid "username".

Now my Question is if there are any wildcards which could cause problems?

for example: mgmt-cli delete administrator uid * -> would the * be interpreted as everything and all my administrators will be deleted?

Regards

Tom

Re: Wildcards for Delete Users From Management Console

Mark_Mitchell — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:23:41 GMT

Hi Tom,

What is the scenario you are trying to achieve? I can't imagine that you would want to remove all administrators from the system.

Regards

Mark

Re: Wildcards for Delete Users From Management Console

PhoneBoy — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 03:32:32 GMT

Pretty sure wildcards aren't supported in this context.

Re: Wildcards for Delete Users From Management Console

Tom_Teichert — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 06:32:57 GMT

The Idea was to give specific People the possibility to manage Administrators via script so they don't need to log in with an Account (we only have 1 account which can create users and access is restricted and logged) which has the rights to create users to smart console every time. i just want to make sure no wrong Special character can create an unwanted scenario. like use a * to remove everyone.

Re: Wildcards for Delete Users From Management Console

HeikoAnkenbrand — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 06:59:56 GMT

Or check with regex your input string in the script.