Add user to multiple groups

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Ryan Bahten

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Jul 31, 2014, 1:40:26 PM7/31/14
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I would like to add some newly created users to multiple groups (up to 5 in some cases) with one command. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm running 3.21 on 10.9.4. I'm OK with doing it one user at a time, but it would be nice to be able to add that one user to multiple groups with one bulk command. Thanks in advance for any help,
-Ryan

Karl Hehr

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Jul 31, 2014, 1:43:13 PM7/31/14
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gam update group $yourgrouphere user $usernamefromcsv


repeat for each group. If you create a csv with the group names and the member names ahead of time you can read them into a command as variables


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Ryan Bahten <rba...@delnorte.k12.ca.us> wrote:
I would like to add some newly created users to multiple groups (up to 5 in some cases) with one command. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm running 3.21 on 10.9.4. I'm OK with doing it one user at a time, but it would be nice to be able to add that one user to multiple groups with one bulk command. Thanks in advance for any help,
-Ryan

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Bruce Selzler

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Apr 10, 2015, 10:30:34 AM4/10/15
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Hello team,

Im having trouble with this as well.  Im using the following command:

gam update group "sms-6thgradestudents" add file 'sms6th.txt'


And it tries to work, however it generates the following error:

 adding member se**_a*******@sesd.org...Error 403: Insufficient Permission - insufficientPermissions


(The asterisks are mine) Any ideas whats causing this?

Let me know what you think.

- Sez


On Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 10:43:13 AM UTC-7, Karl Hehr wrote:
gam update group $yourgrouphere user $usernamefromcsv


repeat for each group. If you create a csv with the group names and the member names ahead of time you can read them into a command as variables
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Ryan Bahten <rba...@delnorte.k12.ca.us> wrote:
I would like to add some newly created users to multiple groups (up to 5 in some cases) with one command. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm running 3.21 on 10.9.4. I'm OK with doing it one user at a time, but it would be nice to be able to add that one user to multiple groups with one bulk command. Thanks in advance for any help,
-Ryan

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Duke Le

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Aug 20, 2015, 5:01:22 PM8/20/15
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Yes, I desperately need to figure out how to add a user to multiple groups either command or script. I've look far and wide to no avail.  Any help would be great!

Kevin Melillo

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Aug 20, 2015, 7:02:16 PM8/20/15
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Good evening...  I found this elsewhere on the forums...  I believe it should work for the Mac.  Please try it out, and let me know your results.


while IFS=, read username; do python gam.py delete user $username; done < deleteusers.csv


I have modified the above code with the command you are looking to run.  I have not tested this, because I do not have a Mac.  


white IFS=, read groupname; do python gam.py update group $groupname add member user <email address>; done < groupnames.csv


The contents of the CSV file should be each groups email address followed by a comma.

Duke Le

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Aug 20, 2015, 7:59:20 PM8/20/15
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I get this error on a MAC: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `done'

Jay Lee

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Aug 20, 2015, 8:08:09 PM8/20/15
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Assuming groups.csv is a file with all your groups and groupname as the first line, try:

gam csv groups.csv gam update group ~groupname add member us...@example.com

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Duke Le

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Aug 20, 2015, 8:19:02 PM8/20/15
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Hi Jay,

The command provides this but does not add the user to the multiple groups: starting 5 worker threads...

Any further assistance is greatly appreciated. 

Duke
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Duke Le

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Aug 20, 2015, 8:24:50 PM8/20/15
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Thanks, everyone! With Jay's direction. I tinkered with it and here's what did work:


gam csv groups.csv gam update group ~groupname add member us...@example.com

  • There must be a header in the called "groupname"
  • each group name must on it's own line

THANK YOU EVERYONE! One day totally worth the effort.

Duke Le

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Aug 20, 2015, 8:32:24 PM8/20/15
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Each group name must on it's own line or separated by a comma in the groups.csv file.

Will C

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Feb 3, 2016, 9:07:29 AM2/3/16
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Hi All,

This is great - very useful!!

I'm wondering if it is possible to use the group email address instead of the groupname though.  This makes it easy to copy a list of groups that user belongs to via Admin Cpanel and apply them to a new user..

If the "groups.csv" file contains e.g. groupemail, gro...@domain.com, gro...@domain.com etc..
and the command looked like:
gam csv groups.csv update group ~groupemail add member joh...@domain.com

that would be awesome..... or is this already possible..?

Many thanks!!!!
W

Will C

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Feb 3, 2016, 9:39:40 AM2/3/16
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DOH!
I'm was being stupid... Sorry!
of course it works using the email address.

Well, let me at least take the opportunity to say thanks again for such a wonderful tool!!!

All the best,
W

Raj SINGH

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May 13, 2020, 3:55:51 AM5/13/20
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Hi 
Can somebody help me to do following
I have a group of teachers, group of children's and courses list
Can i do something like adding all students, and teachers to list of course with one .csv files if i create
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