User Account List

User Account List
Is there a way to extract all user accounts from Request Center? Ideally into a spreadsheet that includes their names and user id's as well as whether they are active or inactive. We have a "no longer with the company process" and we need to make sure when someone leaves we make their account inactive. If I can pull a list of accounts they can be compared against a monthly list of users that are no longer with the company.
We are using RequestCenter 2007.1.2

We're on 2006.0.6, but as long as the DIR tables haven't changed much, this SQL should extract what you're looking for:
select p.FirstName, p.LastName, n.LoginName, p.IsInactive
            from DirPerson p,
                 DirContactInfo c,
                 DirNetworkInfo n
           where p.Personid = n.PersonId
             and c.Personid = n.PersonId
             and c.ContactTypeId = 1
             order by lastname, firstname

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When my wife logs in she has her "my documents" folder with her data. She opens thunderbird and gets her email, not mine. More mess though: she doesn't like half the music I like, and she doesn't want to see it. When she opens iTunes she gets a library with fewer songs available, and I'm moderately sure that her songs are *copies* of what's in my music folder. Well some are anyway, some point to the music in my folder (I was not very consistent in how I added music to her library). She has an iPad 1 that syncs to her library, with only a fraction of the apps that I have. She has her own pictures too (different from mine - basically she would copy pics from the camera to her "space" but I wouldn't know it, and wouldn't see them).
The kids accounts are relatively "clean" - just accounts with parental controls for web browsing (online kids games) etc. EXCEPT my daughter has an iPod shuffle (2Gb) and a small library of songs. I *think* this library points to my files but hey might be copies.
I *dont* want to end up with a ton of duplicate files on my new machine like I *know* I have on my windows machine. It just eats up too much space.
What I want to do is have one place for all of the pictures to go, and all of the music files to go, and every time there are new pics or music, it all goes there. But I want my wife to have a "smaller" music library than me (she just plain doesn't want the "clutter" of seeing my music and having to sort through it to check it/uncheck it to put it on her iPad - she's a clutter-free freak even with digital files). For photos I want to use one iPhoto library so that if she goes in there and tags some phots with some keyword or event or adds new pics, then I see those things when I open my iPhoto (I honestly don't even know how to use iPhoto to manage my pics, my iMac is till in the box). I want her to have her data under her login and my data under mine, etc. In short, there things I want shared between the two of us, and things I don't, without duplicate files eating up the space on my 500Gb internal hard drive.
Additionally I am considering a 500Gb external drive, and rather than using it for straight up storage, using it as a time machine backup of the whole system. I am looking at a FireWire800 drive for better performance.
I'd like to get this right the first time, but don't know enough about how os x works/sets up user accounts, and/or the best, most efficient way to set up the new iMac from the get go. I don't know if I should set up all four accounts first, then add my data/music/pics manually, or use the "migration assistant" (I have read a bit about using it but honestly don't know how it works, or if it will do what I want).
Perhaps I could just print out this email and pay for apple one-to-one service, but I thought I'd check here first! Sorry for such a long post - but I am hoping I'm not the only one who has wanted to make the switch and start off on the right path! And it's a lot easier to learn from other peoples experience than to figure it all out on my own!
PS: don't know if it matters much, but I also hav an iPhone that I sync with my iTunes, and I'm concerned about losing the configuration/apps/music/movies on both my iPad and my iPhone when I make the switch. Thoughts? Should I be concerned? How do I do it correctly?

You have 90 days of free AppleCare telephone support. Give them a call and they can help you set it up, however to be honest you are way over thinking this, those old PC habits die hard! My recommendation is, take it out of the box, read the manual carefully and turn the thing on following the on-screen instructions and start enjoying your new iMac.
BTW as new switcher I would also recommend book marking the following URLs
Mac 101
Switch 101
Find Out How Video tutorials
List of Useful URLs for switchers

How do I remove user account with UID=0 (except of root)

Macbook Pro 13; I have Parallels software and did not realize I needed to upgrade to version 10 before upgrading to OS X Yosemite. I get an error stating Parallels 10 cannot be installed because there is a user account other than root that has UID=0. I checked UIDs in Terminal Utilities and there is one other username with UID=0 How do I remove username peggy?
MacBook-Pro:~ pmcvicar$ dscl . -list /Users UniqueID
_amavisd                83
_appleevents            55
_appowner               87
_appserver              79
_ard                    67
_assetcache             235
_astris                 245
_atsserver              97
_avbdeviced             229
_calendar               93
_ces                    32
_clamav                 82
_coreaudiod             202
_coremediaiod           236
_cvmsroot               212
_cvs                    72
_cyrus                  77
_devdocs                59
_devicemgr              220
_displaypolicyd         244
_distnote               241
_dovecot                214
_dovenull               227
_dpaudio                215
_eppc                   71
_ftp                    98
_geod                   56
_iconservices           240
_installassistant       25
_installer              96
_jabber                 84
_kadmin_admin           218
_kadmin_changepw        219
_krb_anonymous          234
_krb_changepw           232
_krb_kadmin             231
_krb_kerberos           233
_krb_krbtgt             230
_krbfast                246
_krbtgt                 217
_launchservicesd        239
_lda                    211
_locationd              205
_lp                     26
_mailman                78
_mcxalr                 54
_mdnsresponder          65
_mysql                  74
_netbios                222
_netstatistics          228
_networkd               24
_nsurlsessiond          242
_nsurlstoraged          243
_pcastagent             55
_pcastlibrary           225
_pcastserver            56
_postfix                27
_postgres               216
_qtss                   76
_sandbox                60
_screensaver            203
_scsd                   31
_securityagent          92
_serialnumberd          58
_softwareupdate         200
_spotlight              89
_sshd                   75
_svn                    73
_taskgated              13
_teamsserver            94
_timezone               210
_tokend                 91
_trustevaluationagent   208
_unknown                99
_update_sharing         95
_usbmuxd                213
_uucp                   4
_warmd                  224
_webauthserver          221
_windowserver           88
_www                    70
_xcsbuildagent          237
_xcscredserver          238
_xgridagent             86
_xgridcontroller        85
daemon                  1
deputydebi              504
Guest                   201
nobody                  -2
peggy                   0
pmcvicar                501
root                    0
MacBook-Pro:~ pmcvicar$

BobM53, That would be needed regardless of what front end my users log in with, in my case I was looking for them to access the DIT via the DSCC/DCC, which is not possible. Regardless, thank you for your reply, it is reassuring to know I am headed in the right direction.
I am now looking towards installing something else like Apache Directory Studio, or some other GUI for users to manage the directory.
I will most likely create one or more ACI's to build groups, adding members to those groups as needed; each group being allowed to perform functions such as create users, lockout users, add/modify hosts, etc.
I will most likely follow the steps outlined in:
Directory Server Groups, Roles, and CoS - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0)
Slightly OT, does anyone have a suitable and similar proven method to "lockdown" root accounts, and who has root access?
Thank you

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