[SOLVED] What does -e option to zmprov getAccount do?

[dhalsema]

Can someone point me to a reference that explains how the -e option works to the zmprov getAccount command.

Without the option, it appears that getAccount returns all the attributes for a user whether it is in their account OR derived from something else such as their COS.

With the -e option it looks like only the attributes from the person's account is shown.

I've been looking for verification of this, thanks.

[mmorse]

Welcome to the forums,

That's correct (-e shows values set only on that individual account).

The code is implemented in //depot/main/ZimbraServer/src/java/com/zimbra/cs/account/ProvUtil.java:

 private void doGetAccount(String[] args) throws ServiceException {
        boolean applyDefault = true;
        int acctPos = 1;
        
        if (args[1].equals("-e")) {
            if (args.length > 1) {
                applyDefault = false;
                acctPos = 2;
            } else {
                usage();
                return;
            }
        } 
        
        dumpAccount(lookupAccount(args[acctPos], true, applyDefault), applyDefault, getArgNameSet(args, acctPos+1));
    }

(Where applyDefault above = the actual defaultCOS or their customCOS settings based on value of zimbraCOSid.)