To answer your question and keeping it within your script, one way of doing it is to run that string through sed and append a \ before each $.
I would do something like:
When you echo ${ENCRYPT} locally, you'll see the whole string with the \ added before the $, but when you do the same remotely through ssh, you'll see the original string as it is in /etc/shadow
Now, I don't know how many times you need to do this, or with how many users, so depending on the circumstances, so there may be other better ways of doing what you need to do.
Anyone have an idea why this if statement does not work correctly?
"test2.sh" 18 lines, 386 characters
#!/usr/bin/sh
WARNING=80
CRITICAL=95
check_it()
{
if ] || ];then
echo "YES ] || ]"
else
echo "NO ] || ]"
fi
}
check_it 80.1
check_it 81.1 (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script where I am trying to set a local variable using the following,
MYVAR="$NAME"_"$NAME2".txt
where say,
NAME = one
NAME2 = two
so I want the output one_two.txt but what I am getting is,
two.txt
basically the $NAME2 is overwriting, what am I doing wrong?
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Hello
This should be easy, but bash is giving me headaches.
At the command line the following command works:
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When script is running you only see when some of the commands are not successfull.
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when creating a for loop (or any other parameter) then using that paramter in a background command execution I only see the parameter name, not the value.
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pwconv
pwconv(1M) System Administration Commands pwconv(1M)NAME
pwconv - installs and updates /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd
SYNOPSIS
pwconv
DESCRIPTION
The pwconv command creates and updates /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd.
pwconv relies on a special value of 'x' in the password field of /etc/passwd. This value of 'x' indicates that the password for the user is
already in /etc/shadow and should not be modified.
If the /etc/shadow file does not exist, this command will create /etc/shadow with information from /etc/passwd. The command populates
/etc/shadow with the user's login name, password, and password aging information. If password aging information does not exist in
/etc/passwd for a given user, none will be added to /etc/shadow. However, the last changed information will always be updated.
If the /etc/shadow file does exist, the following tasks will be performed:
Entries that are in the /etc/passwd file and not in the /etc/shadow file will be added to the /etc/shadow file.
Entries that are in the /etc/shadow file and not in the /etc/passwd file will be removed from /etc/shadow.
Password attributes (for example, password and aging information) that exist in an /etc/passwd entry will be moved to the corre-
sponding entry in /etc/shadow.
The pwconv command can only be used by the super-user.
FILES
/etc/opasswd
/etc/oshadow
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO passwd(1), passmgmt(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), attributes(5)DIAGNOSTICS
pwconv exits with one of the following values:
0 SUCCESS.
1 Permission denied.
2 Invalid command syntax.
3 Unexpected failure. Conversion not done.
4 Unexpected failure. Password file(s) missing.
5 Password file(s) busy. Try again later.
6 Bad entry in /etc/shadow file.
SunOS 5.10 9 Mar 1993 pwconv(1M)