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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to read through a file and create new users/assign them to groups in Ubuntu Post 302941662 by RudiC on Sunday 19th of April 2015 10:28:20 AM
Old 04-19-2015
Give it a try, and if you get stuck, come back with your script, so we can help you out.
 

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rt-email-group-admin-4

rt-email-group-admin(8) 				     Request Tracker Reference					   rt-email-group-admin(8)

NAME

       rt-email-group-admin - Command line tool for administrating NotifyGroup actions

SYNOPSIS

	   rt-email-group-admin --list
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify foo team' --group Foo
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify foo team as comment' --comment --group Foo
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify group Foo and Bar' --group Foo --group Bar
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify user foo@bar.com' --user foo@bar.com
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify VIPs' --user vip1@bar.com
	   rt-email-group-admin --add 'Notify VIPs' --user vip2@bar.com --group vip1 --user vip3@foo.com
	   rt-email-group-admin --rename 'Notify VIPs' --newname 'Inform VIPs'
	   rt-email-group-admin --switch 'Notify VIPs'
	   rt-email-group-admin --delete 'Notify user foo@bar.com'

DESCRIPTION

       This script list, create, modify or delete scrip actions in the RT DB. Once you've created an action you can use it in a scrip.

       For example you can create the following action using this script:

	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify developers' --group 'Development Team'

       Then you can add the followoing scrip to your Bugs queue:

	   Condition: On Create
	   Action:    Notify developers
	   Template:  Transaction
	   Stage:     TransactionCreate

       Your development team will be notified on every new ticket in the queue.

USAGE

       rt-email-group-admin --COMMAND ARGS

COMMANDS

   list
       Lists actions and its descriptions.

   create NAME [--comment] [--group GNAME] [--user UNAME]
       Creates new action with NAME and adds users and/or groups to its recipient list. Would be notify as comment if --comment specified.

   add NAME [--group GNAME] [--user UNAME]
       Adds groups and/or users to recipients of the action NAME.

   delete NAME
       Deletes action NAME if scrips doesn't use it.

   switch NAME
       Switch action NAME from notify as correspondence to comment and back.

   rename NAME --newname NEWNAME
       Renames action NAME to NEWNAME.

   NOTES
       If command has option --group or --user then you can use it more then once, if other is not specified.

AUTHOR

       Ruslan U. Zakirov <ruz@bestpractical.com>

SEE ALSO

       RT::Action::NotifyGroup, RT::Action::NotifyGroupAsComment

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