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mcxquery(1)               BSD General Commands Manual              mcxquery(1)

NAME
     mcxquery -- Managed Client (MCX) compositor query tool

SYNOPSIS
     mcxquery [options] [-user recordName] [-group recordName] [-computer spec]

              options:

              -o path                    output path

              -format space | tab | xml  output format

DESCRIPTION
     mcxquery is a utility to determine the effective managed preferences for a user logging in to a work-group workgroup
     group from a specific computer.

     -user      Specify the short name of the user record to read managed preferences from. If this parame-ter parameter
                ter is omitted, or a value of "=" specified, the short name of the currently logged in con-sole console
                sole user will be used.

     -group     Specify the short name of the group record to read managed preferences from. A value of "="
                may be specified to mean the name of the workgroup (if any) chosen for the current login
                session.

     -computer  Specify the computer record to read managed preferences from. The computer can be specified
                using either an Ethernet MAC address (e.g. "11:22:33:44:55:66") or the short name of the
                computer record itself (e.g. "lab1_12"). If this parameter is omitted, or a value of "="
                specified, the record for the current computer will be used.

EXAMPLES
     mcxquery -user jane -group science -computer lab1_12
              Displays the managed preferences that would be in effect if user "jane" logged in using work-group workgroup
              group "science" from the computer specified in the "lab1_12" computer record.

     mcxquery -user jane -group science -computer 11:22:33:44:55:66
              Displays the managed preferences that would be in effect if user "jane" logged in using work-group workgroup
              group "science" from a computer with an Ethernet MAC address of 11:22:33:44:55:66.

     mcxquery -user = -group = -computer guest
              Displays the managed preferences that would be in effect if the current user logged in using
              the current workgroup into a computer not specified by any computer record (i.e. a "guest"
              computer).

     mcxquery -user jane -group math
              Displays the managed preferences that would be in effect if the user "jane" logged into the
              "math" workgroup on the current computer.

     mcxquery -o /tmp/report.txt -format xml -user jane
              Writes the managed preferences that would be in effect if user "jane" logged into the current
              computer without a workgroup.  The report is written in XML format to /tmp/report.txt.

MacOSX                         January 23, 2006                         MacOSX