What's wrong with this syntax? It's part of my 'if' statement but it doesn't seem to pass and it keeps going to the 'else' part.
I thought it says that userid must start with a non-numeric character and is between 6 and 10 characters long (alphanumeric).
$userid|grep -Eq '^?\{6,10\}+$'
if... (2 Replies)
Hi I am trying to write a script to check the log files for the trancactions based on usr input date and user input user id.
I will take the user input userid and user input date and check there are any creation deletion happened, if so mail it other wise say no transactions;
I got user... (2 Replies)
Hi All!
My db2 is started in the AIX /etc/inittab on systemreboot as follows
db3:2:once:su - db2inst3 -c db2start >/dev/console 2>1
I changed the .profile of db2inst3 to put an alias to the db2start command as follows
alias db2start="/usr/bin/ksh /home/db2inst3/sample/db2start.ksh"
When... (1 Reply)
I would like to know the difference between the real user-id and the
effective user-id. If user-A runs a program owned by user-B then
which is the real user-id and which is the effective user-id ? (1 Reply)
Hello,
does anyone know how to increment a userid(number) written in any scripting language that works on a shell?
For example:
I have a HTML file in this format:
userid:
name:
telephone:
Every time I execute my script it adds the same fields, except with the userid incremented. Like... (2 Replies)
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Hi All,
I got this userid apache with the same userid and groupid and /sbin/nologin and the /www/a home folder is empty.
Can I just delete this userid? How can I investigate if userid have something to do with the application?
Thanks for any comment you may add. (1 Reply)
Hi all.
Quick question.
How can I tell if someone is logging in to our unix servers with an application id and not their personal id?
Thanks (2 Replies)
questions:
a. where can I customized the password of userid in solaris? say I wanted 10digits long, all caps?
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getpw
GETPW(3) Linux Programmer's Manual GETPW(3)NAME
getpw - Re-construct password line entry
SYNOPSIS
#include <pwd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
int getpw(uid_t uid, char *buf);
DESCRIPTION
The getpw() function re-constructs the password line entry for the given user uid uid in the buffer buf. The returned buffer contains a
line of format
name:passwd:uid:gid:gecos:dir:shell
The passwd structure is defined in <pwd.h> as follows:
struct passwd {
char *pw_name; /* user name */
char *pw_passwd; /* user password */
uid_t pw_uid; /* user id */
gid_t pw_gid; /* group id */
char *pw_gecos; /* real name */
char *pw_dir; /* home directory */
char *pw_shell; /* shell program */
};
RETURN VALUE
The getpw() function returns 0 on success, or -1 if an error occurs.
ERRORS
ENOMEM Insufficient memory to allocate passwd structure.
FILES
/etc/passwd
password database file
CONFORMING TO
SYSVr2.
BUGS
The getpw() function is dangerous as it may overflow the provided buffer buf. It is obsoleted by getpwuid().
SEE ALSO fgetpwent(3), getpwent(3), setpwent(3), endpwent(3), getpwnam(3), getpwuid(3), putpwent(3), passwd(5)GNU 1996-05-27 GETPW(3)