Ok Im trying too make this shell script create users from my text file, I also want to type in a password for the new users. So thay can make a uniq one themself after first logon.
This is how my text file looks like
This is what /etc/shadow looks like after running the script and what happens when I want to su to one of the new users.
I just dont understand why password is clear text in the shadow file.. As I think the problem lies there.
Help wanted any hints on whats wrong here?
Here's my box info:
ROOT@fcivra: uname -a
SunOS fcivra 5.6 Generic_105181-26 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
I am creating a script called adduser, that will incorporate the useradd command. Here is what it looks like:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Enter the person's VZID (lower case): \c"
read VZID... (2 Replies)
Gurus,
I need to add a user to all the machines. I need a script to do this. I did one but it does not allow me to su to root within a ssh session i open. It exists saying su: Sorry. Please let me know how i can do it. I do not have the freedom of using sudo either.
Regards (4 Replies)
i'm new to scripting in unix and am trying to make a script to add a user and an encrypted password for them. this is what i have and it isn't giving me any errors, but when i try to login with the new user, the password doesn't work. i'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction
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Hello guys,
I am trying to add users to samba/ldap system, set their quota, set them a common password and add auto_home records for the new users
User list file is in below format
Firstname Lastname Username
Command I run to add user is
smbldap-useradd -a -m -N $Firstname -S... (0 Replies)
I want to creat a 27 logins in solaris.Can anyone tell me how to write a script for that so that i create at a time for all 27 people.
Thanks to guide me. (6 Replies)
Trying to create a bash script that will read the /etc/passwd file for existing UID's before adding a new user and also does an incremental by allocating the next available UID.And also add the user to the correct group.Please help I am a newbie in scripting. (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)