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  • March 13, 2015
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Hi.

I tried to fetch the current users UID for a script

echo "checking Users UID"
UID=id -u $loggedInUser
echo "$UID"

The output is: Desktop/user_info.sh: line 44: UID: readonly variable
Further there was the idea to check if this is a UID between 501 and 1000 to display if it's a local or AD/OD account.

It would be nice if anybody has an idea how I could approach that?!

Thanks,
Maik

Best answer by karthikeyan_mac

Hi Maik,

UID is a system reserved variable with information about the user id, Please use some other variable

echo "checking Users UID"
UID1=id -u $loggedInUser
echo "$UID1"

Also quote id -u $loggedInUser to store the output of the command to variable

Thanks & Regards,
Karthikeyan

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    karthikeyan_mac
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    • karthikeyan_mac
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    • March 13, 2015

    Hi Maik,

    UID is a system reserved variable with information about the user id, Please use some other variable

    echo "checking Users UID"
    UID1=id -u $loggedInUser
    echo "$UID1"

    Also quote id -u $loggedInUser to store the output of the command to variable

    Thanks & Regards,
    Karthikeyan

    karthikeyan_mac
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    ` quote in jamfnation considers as script so i missed it. Thanks

    M
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    • maiksanftenberg
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    • March 16, 2015

    Lesson learned.
    Thanks for that.

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