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Is there an API for querying GRR users? #478

Open hillu opened 7 years ago

hillu commented 7 years ago

Can I somehow use the API to retrieve information about the GRR users and their labels? Currently, I am running grr_config_updater show_user and parsing its output, but that seems to incur a pretty high startup cost (between 2 and 3 seconds on a VM with SSD storage.) and I would rather not rely on parsing plain text output that may change at any time.

IntenseWiggling commented 7 years ago

If you follow through what grr_config_updater does with show_user, you'll come to ShowUser() in https://github.com/google/grr/blob/master/grr/lib/maintenance_utils.py.

from grr.lib import maintenance_utils

maintenance_utils.ShowUser(username=None)
hillu commented 7 years ago

Sorry for being unclear -- I meant: Is there a Web API to retrieve that information from outside programs?

mbushkov commented 7 years ago

Hi Hilko, We only have an API to fetch the data about your own user (via "/api/users/me"), not about other users in the system. We pretty much didn't have a use-case for the API to list users other than yourself. Can you please describe your use-case in a bit more details: how often do you need to fetch information about other users and how do you want to use it?

Cheers, Misha

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Hilko Bengen notifications@github.com wrote:

Sorry for being unclear -- I meant: Is there a Web API to retrieve that information from outside programs?

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