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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script problem Post 302377378 by ryzzaze on Friday 4th of December 2009 12:40:03 AM
Old 12-04-2009
Shell script problem
Hello. I am trying to make this shell script bellow work on my server wich should take the names in newacc.cvs and add them to the system. For each user the script should ask me to enter a password for the user im adding and then add them to the system, however my current solution do not work atm as when i run the script it dont stop to let me enter a password at all at the passwd echo, it just runs past it :/ do someone know how to make this work?

Example from newacc.cvs

maria;jones
andreas;öring

Script
Code:
#!/bin/sh

if [ "$#" == "0" ]
then

cat newacc.cvs | while IFS=';'  read firstname surname;
do

    useradd $firstname -m
    echo  added $firstname to the system
    passwd $firstname
    cd /home/$firstname/
    maildirmake.courier Maildir
    echo Maildir Created for $firstname


done
  exit 0

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

cvs-autoreleasedeb

CVS-AUTORELEASEDEB(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     CVS-AUTORELEASEDEB(1)

NAME

       cvs-autoreleasedeb - Automatic Release of debian packages from CVS

DESCRIPTION

       This script generates and uploads the debian package for cvs modules managed by cvs-buildpackage.

       cvs-autoreleasedeb will maintain a state file of all the packages you want to be automatically published, and every time you commit the
       debian/changelog file of your package, changing the debian version to a greater value, it will be published.

       All the parameters to the script are configured in the conffile. There is no command-line switch. See cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5) for more
       information.

USING

       There are two ways of using this script:

       1) Run as user cvs-autoreleasedeb in cron. This is very useful for software houses that want to have the "nightily build" version of the
       software published automatically.  In this case, the config file will be "/etc/cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf" and it will use
       /var/lib/cvs-autoreleasedeb/ as scratch dir.

	 NOTE: edit /etc/default/cvs-autoreleasedeb to control this behavior
	 NOTE 2: all output will be thrown in /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb/run.log

       2) Run as yourself, it will automatizate the work you will have if you have your packages in CVS.  In this case, the config file will be
       $HOME/.cvs-autoreleasedeb/conf and the scratch dir will be $HOME/.cvs-autoreleasedeb.  cvs-autoreleasedeb will not create defaults, you
       must have the configuration file created before running cvs-autoreleasedeb. See cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5).

TODO

	- Use a snapshot of the time of the commit in
	  the changelog to checkout the source
	- Localize the messages.
	- Work with other than all lowercase in conffile.
	- Use a better format for conffile.

_EXIT CODES
	_exit codes:
	0 = Clean _exit
	1 = Config file not found
	2 = No packages in config file
	3 = Couldn't open the state file
	4 = Couldn't open the state file for writing
	5 = Couldn't determine architecture

SEE ALSO

       cvs-buildpackage(1), cvs(1), cvs-autoreleasedeb.conf(5), dupload(1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Daniel Ruoso <daniel@ruoso.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

perl v5.8.7							    2006-08-04						     CVS-AUTORELEASEDEB(1)
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