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i came to the same conclusion about it being a waste of time. thank you

i did have the useradd and the groupadd in my script so i guess that will have to do.

thank you for your help

Thank you that is what i was looking for (the keyboard shortcut). man have i had a long day it was only after you said <shift 6> that i saw the character there on the keyboard when i looked for it...

Lastly I'd add a check for the user ID at the beginning of your script.
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
Only people with root access...

at the moment no it is not being run under a different user than me. im not sure what my instructor will have us do to run it.

thanks

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sorry for the confusion. the if statement works correctly if the directory does exist it says so and if it does not it does attempt to create the directory but i get the error
"mkdir: cannot create...

in this first section of the code:

echo "What department are you assigned to?"
read department # $department
sleep 2
echo "you are assigned to the: $department"
sleep 7
clear

the...

first off let me introduce myself. My name is Eric and I am new to linux, I am taking an advanced linux administration class and we are tasked with creating a script to add new users that anyone...

sorry didnt see that thread at first

thanks