treebug has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

how can i get a list of usernames from an windows xp box im sure there is a more efficient way than getting a dir of the c:\documents and settings\ folder and sorting the output i am new to perl and trying to automate deleting all of my user's temporary internet files and temp files from their c:\docs and sets\usrname\local settings\ folder thanks

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Re: windows xp list users
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 28, 2005 at 01:09 UTC

    See Win32::NetAdmin::GetUsers()...

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Re: windows xp list users
by davidrw (Prior) on Jun 28, 2005 at 01:07 UTC
    If deleting the temporary internet files is your only requirement, then there's no need to know the actual user list -- you can simply just find (File::Find) and delete c:\documents and settings\*\local settings\Temporary Internet Files\* or whatever the wildcard is.

    To find the actual users, i'm not sure -- i find out how to do that in general first, and then use that as a guide to find the right Win32 module. (Or maybe it's an external command you can backtick)
    Update: Doh -- i cpan-searched for "Win32::Admin" .. BrowserUK found the right one at Win32::NetAdmin .
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Re: windows xp list users
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jun 28, 2005 at 07:43 UTC

    There is also Win32::Lanman. In particular: 

    Win32::Lanman::NetUserGetInfo
Win32::Lanman::NetGroupEnum
Win32::Lanman::NetGroupGetUsers
Win32::Lanman::NetGetDCName

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    However, it disturbs me that Win32::Lanman, though powerful and comprehensive, is not on CPAN. Anyone know why?

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      However, it disturbs me that Win32::Lanman, though powerful and comprehensive, is not on CPAN. Anyone know why?

      It's there, the source package just doesn't contain the data that CPAN needs in order to index it. You can find it in the authors/id/J/JH/JHELBERG/ directory though. Maybe someone needs to reach out to the author and create at least a META.yml file for them to include that would let it get indexed.

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