you might be better off appending an entry into the remote box's /etc/passwd file and then creating the home directory as required ...
a. create /etc/password and /etc/shadow strings for the user into temp files
Code:
vi /tmp/pass
vi /tmp/shad
b. transfer the temp files to remote host
Code:
cd /tmp
for remhost in `< /path/to/hostlist`
do
tar cvfp - pass shad | ssh $remhost "cd /tmp; tar xvfp -"
done
c. append the strings and create home directory as required. put in the correct homedir path as required.
please make sure to use ">>" or you'll clobber your files ...
Code:
for remhost in `< /path/to/hoslist`
do
ssh $remhost "hostname; cat /tmp/pass >> /etc/passwd; cat /tmp/shad >> /etc/shadow; cd /home; mkdir -m 755 bpadm; chown bpadm bpadm; cd /tmp; rm pass shad"
done
the only catch here is your use of sudo ... you might want to put the commands i listed in item d in a script and then call sudo to run the script on the remote box ... assuming that you can put in the root password
the script ...
Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh
[ -f /tmp/pass ] && cat /tmp/pass >> /etc/passwd
[ -f /tmp/shad ] && cat /tmp/shad >> /etc/shad
[ ! -d /home/bpadm ] && (cd /home; mkdir -m 755 bpadm; chown bpadm bpadm)
rm /tmp/pass /tmp/shad 2> /dev/null
exit 0
the job ...
Code:
for remhost in `< /path/to/hostlist`
do
scp -p /tmp/script $remhost:/tmp/script
ssh $remhost "hostname; sudo /tmp/script"
done
