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yehhh its going to be on a test machine so if it breaks it breaks but im trying to append LK

to the correct field in the shadow field. How could i do that?

Hey guys..

i need to be able to append 'LK' to a password field in the shadow file


I cannot use commands such as usermod chsh i need to directly be able to manupilate the files through a menu...

i found AWK is there a way i can use that to ask for input to search for the account then append LK to lock it delimeted by :

So is there a way to actually write to the shadow file and prepend LK to the file so you can lock it
without using the commands.

For the project we are doing where not aloud to use any commands like passwd we have to modify the shadow directly they just love making things hard for us :)

Im testing it on my own machine as...

Yehhh but is there a way that i can do it without using passwd -l {username}

like if i can code something to directly modify the shoadow file without using the passwd command

maybe write to the...

Hey guys just wondering how i could lock a specific acount by prepending LK
to the password field in the /etc/shadow file.

it cannot be done through a command since the script gets called by a...

If i do that i get syntax error unexpected token 'then'

ahh this is driving me nuts it was working before!


if [ -d /tmp/old ]
then
echo "DIR exist"
else
echo "Error: '$check' does not...

ohhh oko ill give it a try

is there a way of doing it in the actual bash script that im running once a month?

like a verbose command or something similar?

Hi guys with regards to Cron jobs if for example i run a script and it produces output to the admin mail how could i stop it from doing that at script level and redirrect it to a file so that admin...

ok that works thanks very much

that still does not work for some reason i get more syntax errors with the then

i get syntax error near unexpected token then

iv done

[code]
if [-d /tmp/old]
then
#do nothing
elif
echo "directory exists"
exit 1
fi

i get some weird errors all about syntax where am i going wrong

is there a way to check just for directory rather then file?

thanks for your fast reply

yes i am talking about a cron job so if this script where to run as a cron job process and it would send mail to the administrator. I would only want it to send error messages to the log file. Would...

Hey guys im trying to check if the directory exists
i get a syntax error on the elif statement iv tried using else and still same result im not sure. If the directory does not exist can i just...

just bash shell script

Hi guys if for every command you issued successfully where to be logged from a script and them sent an email to the admistrator how could i stop that so that i wouldnt have to delete admin mail all...

To add to the above if i used a command like

mv "whatever the find command fines" /temp/oldfiles

how i would i actually tell the move command to get whatever the find command finds then move...

Hi guys just wondering if there is a way to
scan the whoel file system and find files that have not been used over a number of days, using the script

The only issue is that we cant do it that way because the Administrators disable cron and at access.

Hi guys just wondering how i could make one of my scripts run unattended without the use of cron?