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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script to create local homes Post 57361 by Steve Adcock on Monday 25th of October 2004 04:18:53 AM
Old 10-25-2004
This may be the way to go

Problems are probably due to the script running as root which means ~ still resolves to root's home.

What you should probably do is change CURRUSER $(logname) or even just $USER for that matter.

create a new shell script:

#!/bin/sh

sudo -u $1 -H <pathToOriginalScript>

exit 0


Make this one your LoginHook.

This will run your script as the user logging instead of running it as root, and set the ~ variable to the target users $HOME.

You may also want to use 'id -Gn' instead of 'groups' as 'groups' has been made obsolete by 'id'.
 

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SYSTEMD-RC-LOCAL-GENERATOR(8)				    systemd-rc-local-generator				     SYSTEMD-RC-LOCAL-GENERATOR(8)

NAME

       systemd-rc-local-generator - Compatibility generator for starting /etc/rc.local and /usr/sbin/halt.local during boot and shutdown

SYNOPSIS

       /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-rc-local-generator

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-rc-local-generator is a generator that checks whether /etc/rc.local exists and is executable, and if it is pulls the
       rc-local.service unit into the boot process. This unit is responsible for running this script during late boot. Note that the script will
       be run with slightly different semantics than the original System V version, which was run "last" in the boot process, which is a concept
       that does not translate to systemd. The script is run after network.target, but in parallel with most other regular system services.

       systemd-rc-local-generator also checks whether /usr/sbin/halt.local exists and is executable, and if it is pulls the halt-local.service
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