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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting append 3 users in /etc/passwd Post 302111881 by Perderabo on Friday 23rd of March 2007 06:36:54 AM
Old 03-23-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by jambesh
Yogesh !! path name should be in unix style...
it should be /etc/passwd and not \etc\passwd right ??
Right!

With most versions of Unix the password is no longer stored in the /etc/passwd file. Instead another file, often /etc/shadow, has the passwords. These 2 files must be kept in sync. Add records to both at the same time.

I like the idea of using useradd. The passwd program is hard to use in a script unless you use expect with it. There are several examples of this on our site which you can find with our search function.
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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