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I am looking for a way to query the API for the username of the Mac's assigned user in Jamf Pro.

Here is a code snippet to get that info.



I use this snippet as part of a larger system renamer script. 



#!/bin/sh



# Variables

jssURL="https://jamf.domain.com:8443/"

apiUser="apiuser"

apiPass="apipassword"



SERIAL=$(ioreg -c IOPlatformExpertDevice -d 2 | awk -F" '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/{print $(NF-1)}')



USERINFO=$(curl -k ${jssURL}JSSResource/computers/serialnumber/${SERIAL}/subset/location -H "Accept: application/xml" --user "${apiUser}:${apiPass}")

USERNAME=$(echo $USERINFO | /usr/bin/awk -F'<username>|</username>' '{print $2}' | tr [A-Z] [a-z])

first2user=$(echo ${USERNAME:0:2})



DEVICEINFO=$(curl -k ${jssURL}JSSResource/computers/serialnumber/${SERIAL}/subset/hardware -H "Accept: application/xml" --user "${apiUser}:${apiPass}")

MODEL=$(echo $DEVICEINFO | /usr/bin/awk -F'<model_identifier>|</model_identifier>' '{print $2}')

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am just starting with Jamf Pro, so I appreciate your help!

Just a small note tr [A-Z] [a-z] didn't work for me, but tr "A-Z" "a-z" worked. Without the double quotes works too.



USERNAME=$(echo $USERINFO | /usr/bin/awk -F'<username>|</username>' '{print $2}' | tr "A-Z" "a-z")
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