The signat script is used to look up the signatory status of people and
student groups. This allows us to verify that the people who email us or come
in to staff hours are really signatories for their group, and
it also gives all the information needed to create group accounts with
approve.
signat is an interface to the ocflib functions to query the
CalLink API for group signatories. ocflib is also used to look
up UIDs and OIDs in OCF LDAP and names in the
university's LDAP directory service.
There are several different types of queries available through signat.
$ signat -h
usage: signat [-h] {uid,oid,user,name,group} ...
Find active student groups and signatories
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
subcommands:
{uid,oid,user,name,group}
uid Look up the signatory status of a person by CalNet UID
oid Look up the signatories of a group by CalLink OID
user Look up the signatory status of an OCF user
name Look up the signatory status of a person by name
group Look up the signatories of a group by group name
group and name are the easiest queries to use when a group or signatory
doesn't already have an OCF account. These perform a keyword search for people
or groups by name.
$ signat name N Impicciche
Searching for people... Found 1 entry.
Searching for signatories...
NICHOLAS DANIEL IMPICCICHE (1032668)
====================================
Group Accounts OID
----------------------- --------------------------- -----
Open Computing Facility decal, linux, ggroup, group 46187
$ signat group free
Searching for groups... Found 2 entries.
Searching for signatories...
Free Ventures (91915)
Group accounts: free
=====================
Signatory UID
---------------------- -------
KEYAN SARRAFZADEH 1004456
DAMINI SATIJA 995579
Jasmine Chiman STOY 995773
AMRIT MAHADEVAN AYALUR 1027142
Students for a Free Tibet at Berkeley (46707)
Group accounts: n/a
=============================================
Signatory UID
------------------ -------
SANGMO TENZIN ARYA 1035554
DORJEE TASHI 1110958
TENZING DOLMA 1027935
user looks up an OCF account and prints the signatories for a group account
or the signatory status of an individual account.
$ signat user nickimp
NICHOLAS DANIEL IMPICCICHE (1032668)
====================================
Group Accounts OID
----------------------- --------------------------- -----
Open Computing Facility decal, linux, ggroup, group 46187
$ signat user free
Free Ventures (91915)
Group accounts: free
=====================
Signatory UID
---------------------- -------
KEYAN SARRAFZADEH 1004456
DAMINI SATIJA 995579
Jasmine Chiman STOY 995773
AMRIT MAHADEVAN AYALUR 1027142
The other two queries, uid and oid, don't offer much convenience, but
complete the spectrum of useful queries.
$ signat uid 1032668
NICHOLAS DANIEL IMPICCICHE (1032668)
====================================
Group Accounts OID
----------------------- --------------------------- -----
Open Computing Facility decal, linux, ggroup, group 46187
$ signat oid 91915
Free Ventures (91915)
Group accounts: free
=====================
Signatory UID
---------------------- -------
KEYAN SARRAFZADEH 1004456
DAMINI SATIJA 995579
Jasmine Chiman STOY 995773
AMRIT MAHADEVAN AYALUR 1027142