I can see issues with the input stream from "while" clashing with reads from each terminal session.
We must assume that you are logged in as "root" before starting this exercise.
It is not clear whether you wish to run a program while in the environment of each user or just to edit a flat file owned by that user in their respective account. i.e. Do you need the full user environment at the time of the edit?
Personally I would write a script to write a script, then execute that script. This method avoids the input from the while loop being read in error.
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I am using Sun Solaris 9 .In this system normal users unable to create files from the command line.I added these users in bin,adm and even root group i found them unable to create a file. (1 Reply)
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I am trying to eject the cdrom from a livecd after certain stage...
Now assuming that it is possible to eject,please consider my issue!!!
The OS boots into a regular user by default...so i am unable to use the eject command to push out the drive...
However if i try pfexec eject it... (3 Replies)
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I have written one shell script for GPRS route add is given below named GPRSRouteSet.sh
URL="www.google.com"
VBURL="10.5.2.211"
echo "Setting route for $URL for GPRS"
URL_Address=`nslookup $URL|grep Address:|grep -v "#"|awk -F " " '{print $2}'|head -1`
echo "Executing ... (3 Replies)
Besides doing some shell-script which loops through /etc/passwd, I was wondering if there was some command that would tell me, like an enhanced version of getent.
The Operating system is Solaris 10 (recent-ish revision) using Sun DS for LDAP. (5 Replies)
Hi I need help..........
I have an Sun One Directory server LDIF file with 5000 user entries, I need to change the data to match Test ID's, so I can run a perf test.
I'm way out of my league as I have not done any scripting for 10 years.
There are four entries for each user in the file... (3 Replies)
i have a script which takes input from user, if user gives either Y/y then it should continue, else it should quit by displaying user cancelled.
#!/bin/sh
echo " Enter your choice to continue y/Y OR n/N to quit "
read A
if
then
echo " user requested to continue "
##some commands... (7 Replies)
Whenever i switch from root to another user, by doing su - user, it takes me to home directory of user. This is very annoying as i want to be in same dir to run different commands as root sometimes and sometimes as normal user.
How to fix this? (1 Reply)
Hello,
i configured rhel linux 6 with AD directory to authorize windows users to connect on the system and it works.
i have accounts with high privileges (oracle for example) if an account is created on the AD server i would to block him.
I looked for how to do, for the moment all the... (3 Replies)