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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Passing variables to mkuser Post 302942502 by bubbawuzhere on Wednesday 29th of April 2015 10:11:59 AM
Old 04-29-2015
I finally stumbled onto the answer, if not the reason... Seems when passing a single quote delimited value to mkuser (or chuser) via a variable, the entire attribute must be surrounded by double quotes... and it doesn't like it with multiple attributes....

These do not work...
Code:
$cmd="pgrp=AGROUP groups=AGROUP gecos='John Doe'"
mkuser $cmd $USERID

Code:
$cmd='pgrp=AGROUP groups=AGROUP "gecos=''John Doe''" '
mkuser $cmd $USERID

But this DOES work...
Code:
$cmd="pgrp=AGROUP groups=AGROUP"
mkuser $cmd $USERID
$cmd="gecos='John Doe'"
chuser "$cmd" $USERID

Thanks all for the replies!
 

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shift(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          shift(1)

NAME
shift - shell built-in function to traverse either a shell's argument list or a list of field-separated words SYNOPSIS
sh shift [n] csh shift [variable] ksh * shift [n] DESCRIPTION
sh The positional parameters from $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ... . If n is not given, it is assumed to be 1. csh The components of argv, or variable, if supplied, are shifted to the left, discarding the first component. It is an error for the variable not to be set or to have a null value. ksh The positional parameters from $n+1 $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ..., default n is 1. The parameter n can be any arithmetic expression that evaluates to a non-negative number less than or equal to $#. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari- able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 shift(1)
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