Occ user::add does not recognize the argument list

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Hi! I’m new to nextcloud and i’m trying to play with it. I’m trying to add an user with occ command doing something like:

export OC_PASS="${PASS}"

cd /var/www/html/nextcloud
sudo --preserve-env -u apache /usr/bin/php ./occ -vvv user:add  --password-from-env --email "${EMAIL}" --display-name "${args[@]}" -- "${USERNAME}"

but i keep getting this error:

In ArgvInput.php line 196:
                                                                       
  [Symfony\Component\Console\Exception\RuntimeException]               
  Too many arguments to "user:add" command, expected arguments "uid".  
                                                                       

Exception trace:
  at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Input/ArgvInput.php:196
 Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput->parseArgument() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Input/ArgvInput.php:89
 Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput->parseToken() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Input/ArgvInput.php:74
 Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput->parse() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Input/Input.php:56
 Symfony\Component\Console\Input\Input->bind() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Command/Command.php:285
 Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php:1078
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php:324
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/symfony/console/Application.php:175
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/Console/Application.php:183
 OC\Console\Application->run() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/console.php:87
 require_once() at /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ:11

user:add [--password-from-env] [--generate-password] [--display-name [DISPLAY-NAME]] [-g|--group [GROUP]] [--email EMAIL] [--] <uid>

I really have no idea what is missing, as for my untrained eyes i respect exactly the required arguments…
Thanks a lot

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Pretty certain this is a shell expansion issue or similar, rather than occ itself.

Hard to say without looking closer.

Doesn’t appear you provided a full reproducer.

I presume those other variables are provided values somewhere and there is also a parameter passed as an argument.

Also not sure what shell you’re testing in.

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Hi! So, this was bash, but anyway i found the problem : the Display Name does not support spaces, so doing:

--display-name "First_Name Last_Name"

was not accepted … i replaced the space with _ and this was solved.

I’m curious why for a Display Name (so something only used to be displayed) the spaces are not accepted …
Anyway, problem is solved.
Thanks!
Adrian

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Can’t reproduce that issue:

# occ user:add --display-name "Test Test" test
Enter password: 
Confirm password: 
The account "test" was created successfully
Display name set to "Test Test"
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weird … i will get back to this and try again … well, the fact is when i replaced the space with _ in display-name, the command worked … for the moment is good enough…

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Are you quoting the value provided on the command line to your script?

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Yes, in my first post i put the exact line from my script of user creation:

export OC_PASS="${PASS}"

cd /var/www/html/nextcloud
sudo --preserve-env -u apache /usr/bin/php ./occ -vvv user:add  --password-from-env --email "${EMAIL}" --display-name "${args[@]}" -- "${USERNAME}"

where args are in fact a copy of ${@}
the way that i use the script is:

run_occ_user_create FirstName LastName
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Not in the script. The parameter you’re providing to the script - i.e.

run_occ_user_create 'FirstName LastName'
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Right, i was not using quotes and my problem was from wrongly thinking that "${args[@]}" is quoted …
after i did DISPLAY_NAME=("${args[*]}") i can use --display-name "${DISPLAY_NAME}"

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