Changes to individual programs

Accexp

• Fixed an issue with extended characters in strings provided for display via /m.

Appdel

• Fixed an issue where appdel might not remove a workstation association for a container object, instead reporting that a user association was present.
• Fixed an issue with using wildcards when deleting group members.

Applist

• Added /z to allow the associations to be formatted as appadd or appdel commands.

Chrcheck

• Fixed an issue where chrcheck would not run on workstations running Windows NT and earlier due to the use of the Win32 GetLongPathName function which is supported only under Windows 2000 and later.

Creatobj

• Fixed an issue where creatobj was failing to report an error if setting the password failed.
• Fixed an issue where it was reporting the path given via /d was invalid when /a was also used and the lowest level did not already exist. This issue was probably introduced when adding support for UTF-8 encoded paths.
• Fixed a long standing issue where the case of the lowest level of the path given via /d was not retained when using /a to indicate that the user name should not be appended.
• Fixed an issue where creatobj reported an error when using /t and /s but not /v to create subdirectories of the home directory, and a subdirectory already existed.
• Modified to not copy entries from the ACL attribute from a template object. However, creatobj will do so if the specified template is a user rather than a template object. For template objects, ACLs to be assigned to new users should be added to the “New Object’s DS Rights” attribute.
• See “Changes to multiple programs” for other changes.

Extcheck

• Fixed an issue where it would not run on workstations running Windows NT and earlier due to the use of the Win32 GetLongPathName function which is supported only under Windows 2000 and later.

Fsupdate

• Added /n=o to allow copying migrated files without de-migration.
• Added /n=e to suppress copying extended attributes. This might be useful for example, if you do not want to retain extended attributes created by a product such as NetShield.
• Fixed an issue where /c was failing to create a target path when the path was given in the form server/vol:level1\level2. /c worked correctly for all other path formats.
• Added /n=f to suppress copying files. When used in conjunction with /m and /t, this allows mirroring of trustee assignments for a particular directory without mirroring the contents.

Getname

• Modified to not print headings and totals for object classes for which there are no objects when using /o=*.
• Fixed a cosmetic issue in the GUI version where a blank field appeared at the end of the list of right click options.
• Updated to display the contents of the “App:Error log path” attribute as a text string.
• Updated the GUI version to display the object’s context as a separate optional column.
• Modified to make inclusion of auxiliary class attributes the default, so that such attributes can be included in a value given for /a.
• Fixed some minor issues related to switching back and forth between trees in the GUI version.

Getquota

• Added the ability to use percentage values when filtering on usage and free space e.g. getquota p: f lt 10% /ds.

Getrest

• Fixed an issue where getrest quit without an error when running on a machine without the GroupWise client installed. The problem was introduced when adding support for displaying whether or not GroupWise logins were disabled.
• Added the ability to display the account activation date and time. The ability to set an activation time was introduced in eDir 8.7 and uses the loginActivationTime attribute.
• Updated the GUI version to allow removal of dates and times when right clicking on the account activation date, account expiration date and password expiration date columns.
• Fixed an issue introduced in V14 where the command line versions could produce an error reporting that the user was not found in GroupWise when displaying all attributes, even though no GroupWise attributes are displayed.
• Added a second method for locating users in GroupWise. Previously, getrest located the user by its distinguished name but sometimes this fails even when the user is present. Now it will also check all users in the post office for a matching distinguished name.
• Fixed an issue in the GUI version where it added ‘and’ instead of ‘or’ when building a filter.
• Fixed some minor issues related to switching back and forth between trees in the GUI version.

Groups

• Fixed an issue where it was failing to enclose a group name in double quotes when the name was selected by browsing. The double quotes are required when listing members because a logical expression may be used.
• Fixed an issue where the results may not be reported correctly when removing a template from a group, and the template had not been added to the group’s “Group Membership” and “Equivalent To Me” attributes.

Grpadd

• Fixed an issue with using /v=f where a template was a member of a group. In this situation, the group should appear in the template’s “Group Membership” and “Security Equals” attributes, but the template should not appear in the group’s “Members” and “Equivalent To Me” attributes. The group was being removed from the template’s “Security Equals” attribute when the template was removed from the group’s “Equivalent To Me” attribute. Grpadd was behaving correctly, but recent versions of eDir will also remove the corresponding “Security Equals” entry when a request is received to remove an entry from “Equivalent To Me”. Grpadd now silently reinstates the group in the template’s “Security Equals” attribute when it removes the template from the group’s “Equivalent To Me” attribute.
• Added the ability via /a to process a file containing both groups and object names, one pair per line. /a may also be used to indicate the character separating the two entities.

Grpdel

• Added the ability via /a to process a file containing both groups and object names, one pair per line. /a may also be used to indicate the character separating the two entities.
• Fixed an issue where the results may not be reported correctly when removing a template from a group, and the template had not been added to the group’s “Group Membership” and “Equivalent To Me” attributes.

Grplist

• Added /d to allow displaying the aliases for each member of a group.

Gwdlists

• Changed /v=+ which previously produced comma delimited output to /v=, to allow ‘+’ to be used to display whether logins are disabled. This is consistent with gwusers.
• Added the ability to display the preferred Email ID via /v=). This requires the GW 7.0 SP1 client.
• Added the ability to display whether logins to an account are disabled via /v=+. This requires the GW 7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to display the LDAP authentication ID via /v=#. This requires the GW 7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to display each user’s GroupWise name in the format name.po.domain via /v=u
• Added the ability to display the allowed address formats via /v=(. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to display the preferred address format via /v=[. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to display the internet domain name exclusive field via /v=]. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to display the internet domain name via /v=_. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Fixed an issue where it was displaying the wrong distribution list name for /v=$ when the member was a nested distribution list.
• Finally resolved an issue where under some circumstances when a field such as accountID did not have a value, gwdlists could display the last value correctly retrieved.
• Updated /s to allow sorting by any of the fields which can be displayed via /v. Previously /s only allowed sorting on the NDS name.

Gwmove

• Fixed an issue introduced in JRButils V14 where it might not locate the domain for a given post office.

Gwusers

• Made a couple of changes to the letters used for /v to create consistency with gwdlists. ‘u’ now displays the GroupWise name in the format name.po.domain, ‘)’ displays the preferred email ID, and ‘$’ is unused (it displays the distribution list name in gwdlists).
• Added the ability to display each user’s GroupWise name in the format name.po.domain via /v=u
• Added the ability to display the allowed address formats via /v=(. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to display the preferred address format via /v=[. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to display the internet domain name exclusive field via /v=]. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to display the internet domain name via /v=_. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to set the preferred address format via /u. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Added the ability to disable and enable logins via /k. This requires the V7.0 SP2 client.
• Finally resolved an issue where under some circumstances when a field such as accountID did not have a value, gwusers could display the last value correctly retrieved.
• Updated to check if the GroupWise user is correctly linked to an NDS object and if not, to report this as the probable reason for failure when modifying an attribute fails.

Homedirs

• Fixed an issue with synchronizing selection changes in the object class combo boxes on the main form with the object class combo box on the tree view dialog form.
• Fixed an issue where an application error could result when using the right click option to create a home directory, and the “Home Directory” attribute was not set.
• Modified the right click option for setting a trustee to given an error code or error description when setting one trustee and it fails.
• Modified the right click option for creating the home directory path to allow a new path to be specified, so that the existing home directory location can be changed, or a home directory provided for a user who did not already have one.
• Fixed an issue where some of the right click options reported an invalid path when the name space field was set incorrectly in the “Home Directory” attribute. Some versions of nwadmin always set a zero value representing DOS even when a long path is used.

Jblookup

• Added /g to require an exact (but case insensitive) match between the value given and the attribute value when using /a. Without /g, jblookup checks if the attribute value contains the value given. For example, searching the title attribute for “Mr” would produce a match on both “Mr” and “Mrs” without /g, and only on “Mr” with /g.
• Added /i to suppress display of the field names. This may be useful to display just the username when the search results are to be used as input to another program such as grpadd. /i accepts one value - ‘c’ which results in csv formatted output.

Jrbimprt

• Modified to set the first name, last name, title, department, phone and fax numbers in GroupWise if these appear in the fields list, and the user is created in GroupWise. This works around issues experienced by some customers where these fields were not synchronised between eDirectory and GroupWise. The GroupWise Admin Object API does not have a feature to initiate a synchronisation.
• Added control statements “Copy from path” and “Copy to path” to allow files or an entire directory structure to be copied into the home directory or a subdirectory of the home directory.
• Added the following control statements for creating and updating external users:

  GroupWise add external users
  GroupWise remove external users
  GroupWise domain

External domains do not have a corresponding object in eDir, hence the “GroupWise domain” statement is required rather than the “GroupWise domain object” statement. The following attributes may be set for external users:

givenName
surname
title
department
telephone
fax
GroupWise account ID
GroupWise visibility
GroupWise disable logins
GroupWise expiration date
GroupWise preferred email ID


• Updated to allow a value for uniqueID to be omitted when assigning users to the auxiliary class posixAccount. This attribute is mandatory for posixAccount but optional in the base schema. A value is now automatically assigned by most programs when creating a user. When a value is not supplied for uniqueID, jrbimprt now checks if a value is already set, and if not, it creates a value from the user’s common name.
• Updated to allow mandatory attributes for an auxiliary class to be specified as fixed values.
• Updated to allow the “zero length value” control statement to be used to clear values for GroupWise strings such as accountID and preferred email ID.
• Fixed an issue where the case of the name was not being preserved when creating groups via a “group membership add” statement combined with “create groups = y”.
• Fixed an issue where groups were not being created when using “create groups = y” and the “group membership add” statement appeared in the data file.
• Added the ability to set ACL entries for users by specifying the ACL attribute in the fields list and providing a three-part value in the form attribute+trustee+rights.
• Modified to read the “Given name” from GroupWise after making all GroupWise changes for a user. This appears to initiate a synchronization between NDS and GroupWise, which should happen automatically, but sometimes does not.
• Added /g to work around an issue with some IDM drivers. By default, jrbimprt sets one attribute at a time, which, while not the most efficient approach, gives the best granularity for error reporting, and minimises the chances of issues relating to interacting attributes e.g. “Password Expiration Time” and “Password expiration Interval”. However, when using multiple IDM drivers, or in particular, the Cosmoskey google driver, the number of events generated can cause problems. Using /g results in multiple attribute values being set in a single request to the server, the exact number being the value assigned to /g. This option should be used only when absolutely necessary.
• Modified to not copy entries from the ACL attribute from a template object. However, jrbimprt will do so if the specified template is a user rather than a template object. For template objects, ACLs to be assigned to new users should be added to the “New Object’s DS Rights” attribute.
• See “Changes to multiple programs” for other changes.

Jrbmap

• Fixed an issue where NCP requests supporting UTF-8 encoded paths might not be used under NW 6.5 SP2 onwards when verifying a path.
• Added the ability to map drives to Windows hosts.
• Fixed issues with displaying mappings when the path contained extended characters.
• Replaced the old obsolete /b (truncate the lowest level of the path to eight characters) with a new option to cause drive mappings to be remembered by Windows so that they are reinstated at the next logon.

Jrbpass

• Fixed an issue where under some circumstances, text in the results box for NetWare and universal passwords was not displayed in red when the password change failed.
• Added a combo box displaying the trees available on the network and allowing passwords to be changed in a selected tree.
• Updated to recognise when the machine is logged into an Active Directory domain and to set passwords in AD.
• Added /m to allow pre-selection of “Retain expiration date”, “Update expiration date” or “Expire universal password” under advanced options.
• Fixed an issue where pressing after typing in a user name resulted in only the first match being displayed when more than one match existed.
• Added /n=t to suppress the tree combo box and to just display the current tree name as per previous versions of jrbpass. Using /b to display a basic interface also suppresses the tree combo box.
• Made changes to avoid an issue where setting AD or NT domain passwords could fail due to the win32 API NetGetDCName failing to return the name of a domain controller, possibly due to a timeout. Jrbpass now tries multiple methods to locate a domain controller.
• See “Changes to multiple programs” for other changes.

Jrbpurge

• Added /n to allow doing a test run i.e. list the files which will be purged, but without actually purging them.

Killconn

• Fixed an issue where killconn could go into an endless loop retrieving the same connections on OES Linux when issuing a command of the form killconn server/user and the connections were not cleared. The problem arose due to a change in behaviour of the NWGetConnListFromObject API on OES Linux. Note that the API for clearing connections is expected to be supported in OES2 SP1.

Listobj

• Added two fake object classes “NCP Physical Server” and “NCP Virtual Server” to allow listing either physical file servers or cluster virtual servers, both of which use the “NCP Server” object class.

Makehome

• Updated to allow substitution identifiers in the log file name, so that the name can be based on the current date.

Makememb

• Fixed an issue where it was populating the group’s “Member” and “Equivalent To Me” attributes when adding a template to a group. For consistency with ConsoleOne, only the template’s “Group Membership” and “Security Equals” attributes should be updated.

Mattach

• Fixed a long-standing oversight where it displayed only IPX addresses for servers to which the workstation is connected.

Movehome

• Fixed an issue where under some circumstances it could report an error when creating the new home directory, and show an incorrect path in the error message.

Move_dir

• Added /a to allow files and directories flagged Ri to be moved. Move_dir will remove the Ri flag, perform the move then reinstate Ri.
• Updated to allow all three parameters to be placed on each line of an input file.
• Updated to support moving files and directories on Windows drives.
• Created a part 2 version. The previous absence of this was an oversight.

Move_obj

• Modified to move users who also exist in GroupWise, via GroupWise APIs. This seems to be more reliable as it eliminates potential replication issues, except when subsequently creating an alias in the old location.

Netcopy

• Added /n=o to allow copying migrated files without de-migration.
• Added /n=e to suppress copying extended attributes. This might be useful for example, if you do not want to retain extended attributes created by a product such as NetShield.
• Updated to retain file and directory ownership when the source and target directories are Windows drives.
• Added /w to attempt to retain file and directory ownership when copying from NetWare to Windows and vice versa. /n=j has also been added to suppress errors when the ownership cannot be retained.
• Updated to create a connection to a Windows host if required. Previously, an existing connection was required.
• Fixed an issue where /c was not working for a Windows drive when a UNC path was given.
• Fixed an issue introduced in JRButils V14 where under some circumstances when the source path ended in “*.*” and /s was used, netcopy failed to copy empty directories.
• Modified to remove “*.*” when appended to a target path as its presence resulted in an error.
• Fixed an issue where an application error could sometimes result when copying a Windows directory with more than 40 characters in the lowest level name in the path.

Openfile

• Modified the command line versions to display the connection address when displaying the connections holding a file open. The GUI version can now display the connection address both when displaying connections holding a file open and a connection’s open files.
• Fixed an issue on OES2 Linux without a support pack where the DOS names of the files were displayed when showing a connection’s open files. This was due to a bug in NCP 89 (6) which is used to convert the name from DOS to long. A work-around was available.
• Fixed an issue where /g (when displaying a connection’s open files, show only those in a particular directory) was ignored when used with /s=m (merge then sort).

Pnctrl

• Solved the issue of it failing to start a previously shutdown printer.
• Added a restart option which stops the printer, waits five seconds, then starts it again.

Pnsetup

• Added the ability via /b to change the port name for printers from NDPSnn to the form \\tree\printerName as used by the MS printer wizard.
• Added the ability via /w to restart the print spooler. This may be combined with any other options.
• Modified to work around an issue caused by some Windows XP updates (see MS articles KB884897 and KB893225) where the printer remained offline after a workstation reboot. Pnsetup now checks that the registry key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Printers\Printers\ has the bits represented by 0x50 set in the attributes field, and if not, sets these bits.

Pnstatus

• Added the following new fields for display

  auditing enabled
  banners enabled
  banners supported
  the number of jobs printed since printer creation
  security level
  spool location
  

• Added /c to display all fields in comma delimited format.

Polassoc

• Fixed an issue where polassoc allowed associating an object with more than one policy of the same class.
• Fixed an issue where /c was not working.

Pwdexp

• Fixed an issue where settings for /i were being ignored.
• Fixed an issue where the simple password check box in the GUI version was not disabled when the user had a universal password.
• Modified to refer to “Universal” passwords instead “NetWare” passwords when appropriate.
• Added /b to the GUI version to suppress the “Please change it” line from the dialog box warning of impending expiration.
• Updated to recognise when the machine is logged into an Active Directory domain and to set passwords in AD.
• Fixed an issue where /s=a did not work when the password was expired.
• Fixed an issue with displaying extended characters in strings provided via /m and /n.
• Added /v to force the use of the master replica for reading the user’s password expiration time, and for changing the password.
• See “Changes to multiple programs” for other changes.

Quotas

• Fixed an issue where it was ignoring the setting for the units when setting quotas and using an input file containing quotas.
• Fixed a couple of obscure issues where options were not appearing correctly when switching from setting to displaying quotas, and the “Use an input file” check box was checked.
• Fixed an issue where the units could be ignored for filter values.
• Fixed an issue where the prompt appeared in the messages column when setting quotas and prompting for confirmation for each user.

Renobj

• Updated to change the name in “Internet Email Address” and “Email Address” attributes.

Serv_cmd

• Worked around a bug in NetWare which could resulting serv_cmd failing to display all loaded NLMs. Each NLM has a number and these are returned to the client 128 at a time. If by chance the starting NLM number in a second or subsequent request is invalid because the NLM has been unloaded, an error is returned. Serv_cmd now uses the last number returned in the previous request as the starting point for the next request (rather than adding one to it), thereby ensuring a valid number is always used. A few extra lines of code prevent details of NLMs being displayed twice.
• Updated to detect Linux based servers and to report that it cannot execute commands on such servers due to the required NCP requests not being supported, or the commands being inappropriate.

Servcert

• Modified to call all of the certificate server functions indirectly. This allows the program to start normally when the required DLLs are not in the search path, and to give a more user friendly error reporting which DLLs are required.

Setattr

• Updated to read the file and directory attributes after modifying them and to report the actual result rather than the expected result. This is necessary because attributes which are not supported (e.g. P on an NCP volume on OES Linux) are ignored by the file system and only supported attributes are changed.

Setname

• Fixed an issue where it could incorrectly report that the value was too long for the attribute when multiple text values were provided and the attribute had an upper length limit. Setname was checking the total length of the values, rather than the length of the individual values.
• Fixed an issue where values were set incorrectly when using /n and multiple values were each enclosed in double quotes e.g. “Value1”;“Value2”;“Value3”. Setname worked correctly when no quotes were used, or the entire string was enclosed in quotes.
• Modified to allow /d to be used with /n so that existing values can be removed before adding multiple new values.
• Updated to allow setting values for “App:Error Log Path” without using an input file. This attribute uses the “Octet String” syntax and such attributes which take ordinary character string values rather than binary data have to be treated as exceptions.
• Modified to deal better with csv files containing an object name and value, one pair per line. A value can be given for /f indicating the separator used in the file. When a value is given on the command line, setname will read only the first field from each line in the file, and when it is omitted, setname will use the 2nd field on each line as the value. If more than two fields are present, the 3rd and subsequent are ignored.
• Added /q to prompt for confirmation before modifying each object.

Setpword

• Added the ability to verify simple passwords when not using universal passwords.
• Retired the option to set Active Directory passwords via NAM 2.0.
• Modified to set Active Directory passwords directly via /m=z.
• Fixed an issue in the GUI version where the “NDS for NT” check box could be enabled when the product was not installed.
• Fixed an issue in the GUI version where selections for passwords to set were not being retained when switching from “Set passwords” to “Verify passwords” and back again.
• Fixed an issue introduced in V14 where it was ignoring an old password given on the command line.
• See “Changes to multiple programs” for other changes.

Setquota

• Fixed an issue where it was not accepting numeric values larger than 2,147,483,647 (0x7FFFFFFF) on the command line.

Setrest

• Added the ability to set account activation times under eDir 8.7 onwards.
• Fixed an issue where it might fail to disable a GroupWise account while reporting that it had done so successfully. Enabling accounts was working correctly.
• Modified to read the “Given name” from GroupWise after setting a GroupWise value for a user. This appears to initiate a synchronisation between NDS and GroupWise, which should happen automatically, but sometimes does not.

Settrust

• Fixed an issue when using /b to execute a file of settrust commands, where it reported an error if a line contained the character string ‘rights’ as in settrust YOGI/VOL1:users\share RF /n=.Wrightson.staff.abc.

Spacemon

• Fixed an issue where an application error could result when calculating usage in a directory without a quota on NSS volumes supporting UTF-8 encoded paths. The issue depended on the number of subdirectories of a directory.
• Fixed an issue where an application error could result if the program attempted to exit while the function executed by the timer routine was running. This typically happened only when summing the usage in a directory without a quota which could take some time to complete. The issue was in the 3rd party balloon component and an updated version solved the issue.
• Added /s to allow a text string of up to 256 characters to be provided for display in the balloon when the warning threshold has been reached.

Trstlist

• Modified to allow a volume name given as the 2nd parameter to be specified in UNC format e.g. \\yogi\vol1.
• Added /n=a to suppress the output of text “No trustees” when listing files and directories without trustees.
• Add the ability to display the rights in Windows format (e.g. RWXD) via /w=w in the command line version and as an additional output column in the GUI version.
• Added the ability to display rights as Windows cacls and icacls commands via /b. An option is included to produce icacls commands granting non-propagated GR+GE rights to parent directories.
• Changed the default name space from DOS to long when producing settrust commands.
• Fixed an issue with displaying the trustee assignments stored in NDS for application objects where trstlist was not displaying the application object name.

Usercert

• Modified to call all of the certificate server functions indirectly. This allows the program to start normally when the required DLLs are not in the search path, and to give a more user friendly error reporting which DLLs are required.

Usergrps

• Added /g to modify the behaviour of /i and /z, allowing those options to be used to include or exclude users from the results based on their group memberships.
• Fixed an issue in the GUI version where the object class combo box associated with the object to process changed to “Group” when browsing for a group to include or exclude.

Users

• Changed the shortcut for clearing connections in the GUI version from Ctrl-C to Ctrl-K, so that Ctrl-C could be used to copy text to the clipboard.

Whodidit

• Fixed an issue where a value of ‘dos’ as in whodidit h: j = dos was producing an error because the Windows command line interpreter treats DOS as a substitution identifier and replaces it with the string “Windows_NT”.
• Fixed an issue where “%volpath” in a template was ignored.
• Added /$ to force a path to be treated as a directory.
• Fixed an issue where it would not run on workstations running Windows NT and earlier due to the use of the Win32 GetLongPathName function which is supported only under Windows 2000 and later.
• Changed the shortcut for copying files in the GUI version from Ctrl-C to Ctrl-K, so that Ctrl-C could be used to copy text to the clipboard.
• Added the ability to use [None] as a filter value for owners, archivers and modifiers, to identify files and directories for which this field has no value.
• Fixed an issue in the GUI version where the right click option to copy files and directories was not working when the entries being copied were on a Windows drive.
• Modified the background colour of the results windows for the right click copy and delete options in the GUI version. The original colour appeared much darker under Windows Vista making the text difficult to read.
• Modified so that when /b and /y are used together, the value for /y overrides the default of /y=dtu set by /b.
• Added /m to allow the output units to be specified for size and quota values. Possible units are bytes, KB, MB and GB.
• Modified the way the GUI version rounds units when calculating KB, MB and GB. Previously it always rounded up (e.g. 1.1 MB became 2 MB) but now it rounds up only if the fraction is greater than or equal to 0.5. This is consistent with the new feature in the command line version.
• Fixed an issue where whodidit always returned zero for the extended attribute count (/o=e) on NSS volumes on OES1 and OES2 Linux. This was due to an API bug which was reported to Novell but to date no response has been received. An alternative method is now used.

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