This is just a test, as you can adjust your script to ask all the important questions instead of hard coding these after you get things working.
Create a shell script that just calls mkuser and has all the values hard coded in it. Of course change all the values in the code below to the correct ones. If you want more values set for this user than what I have included below then adjust as needed.
Give the admin access to this shell script through sudo. The will run the mkuser command with root authority.
Now what values are missing for this new user that you expect to be there?
Just my two cents on how I would troubleshoot this as there are lots of other ways.
If you don't like this process then that's your choice.
I did add "smitty user" in my sudo file and ran it as a non root user and it populated all the fields just as if I run it as root. So if you have it set up the same way then maybe it's some sort of sudo bug.
Hi,
I need to convert user-input from '(this)' to '\(this\)' before passing it to egrep. I've tried using TR, SED and NAWK to add the backslash, but the most I ever get is a backslash without a '(' or ')'.
Any ideas?
Thanks! (13 Replies)
Hi every one,
I recently installed Suse 9.1 and added two users during installation with out problems.
I have tried to add another user using the following cmd: 'useradd pite' and 'passwd xxxx' and got a message new user and password added.
But when i tried to create a directory using... (3 Replies)
I'm using SAM to add users on an HP and they're adding fine. But in /etc/group it only lists the group names. It's not adding the users in there. Is there a way to have them put in there without going into SAM and modifying the group and adding them? I guess what I want to happen is when I add... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
Thanks for your time .
I am working on a application , which adds unix user through useradd and deletes user through userdel . both are admin commands .
My requirement is i have to add a user into at.allow whenver a unix user is added through my application and the user should be... (4 Replies)
Hi guys!
Just was wanting to run a command that would allow me to seperate the currently logged in users.
Basically from this format:
user1
user2
user3
To:
user1|user2|user3
(Note the lack of a pipe at the end, not sure if thats possible)
Basically it needs to be in this... (11 Replies)
Hello there,
I want to add new users to my system, so, being logged in as root I do useradd -m user_name, and the new user is added to the system. The problem is that it has more privileges than I expected. If I do su user_name then I am allowed to do cat /etc/passwd , so it is... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm newbee to AIX and would like to setup a process which kills 1 Hr. ideal users from smit. Please advise for making it work. :)
Thanks,
Sumit (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I've a simple linux script (made by my friend), which adds users to the system from userlist file. it also creates user home dir and copies certain files to the directory. To be honest, am a newbie in scripting so am unable to fully understand how the script is working. unfortunately,... (30 Replies)
hello i'm making a bash script for adding users from a txt fille
i have a basic script that adds users and their password . when you type the users by hand , now i want to upgrade my script with a txt file of users and their password , but i don't know how to start .
my txt file looks... (10 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
setuid
SETUID(1) General Commands Manual SETUID(1)NAME
setuid - run a command with a different uid.
SYNOPSIS
setuid username|uid command [ args ]
DESCRIPTION
Setuid changes user id, then executes the specified command. Unlike some versions of su(1), this program doesn't ever ask for a password
when executed with effective uid=root. This program doesn't change the environment; it only changes the uid and then uses execvp() to find
the command in the path, and execute it. (If the command is a script, execvp() passes the command name to /bin/sh for processing.)
For example,
setuid some_user $SHELL
can be used to start a shell running as another user.
Setuid is useful inside scripts that are being run by a setuid-root user -- such as a script invoked with super, so that the script can
execute some commands using the uid of the original user, instead of root. This allows unsafe commands (such as editors and pagers) to be
used in a non-root mode inside a super script. For example, an operator with permission to modify a certain protected_file could use a
super command that simply does:
cp protected_file temp_file
setuid $ORIG_USER ${EDITOR:-/bin/vi} temp_file
cp temp_file protected_file
(Note: don't use this example directly. If the temp_file can somehow be replaced by another user, as might be the case if it's kept in a
temporary directory, there will be a race condition in the time between editing the temporary file and copying it back to the protected
file.)
AUTHOR
Will Deich
local SETUID(1)