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Chapter 7 Working With Users and Groups 55
3 Open the Terminal application and type the dsimportexport command. The tool is
located in /Applications/Utilities/Workgroup Manager.app/Contents/Resources.
To include the space in the path name, precede it with a backslash (\). For example:
/Applications/Utilities/Workgroup\ Manager.app/Contents/Resources
/dsimportexport -h
4 If you want, use the createhomedir tool to create home directories for imported users.
See “Creating a User’s Home Directory” on page 63.
Creating a Character-Delimited User Import File
You can create a character-delimited file by hand, using a script, or by using a database
or spreadsheet application.
The first record in the file, the record description, describes the format of each account
record in the file. There are three options for the record description:
• Write a full record description
• Use the shorthand StandardUserRecord
• Use the shorthand StandardGroupRecord
The other records in the file describe user or group accounts, encoded in the format
described by the record description. Any line of a character-delimited file that begins
with “#” is ignored during importing.
Writing a Record Description
The record description specifies the fields in each record in the character-delimited file,
specifies the delimiting characters, and specifies the escape character that precedes
special characters in a record. Encode the record description using the following
elements in the order specified, separating them with a space:
• End-of-record indicator (in hex notation)
• Escape character (in hex notation)
• Field separator (in hex notation)
• Value separator (in hex notation)
• Type of accounts in the file (DSRecTypeStandard:Users or
DSRecTypeStandard:Groups)
• Number of attributes in each account record
• List of attributes
For user accounts, the list of attributes must include the following, although you can
omit UID and PrimaryGroupID if you specify a starting UID and a default primary group
ID when you import the file:
• RecordName (the user’s short name)
• Password
• UniqueID (the UID)
• PrimaryGroupID
• RealName (the user’s full name)
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