Script for User Management (Create, Delete, Disable...etc)


 
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Old 07-26-2017
Script for User Management (Create, Delete, Disable...etc)

Hi Everyone,

Am very new to shell scripting and would need help on a script that needs to be executed on a central server which takes IP, Flavor (AIX, Solaris, RHEL) as inputs and create a new account/user, update the existing users settings, delete or disable the users/accounts in those servers (AIX, Solaris, RHEL).

Please post if any having a working script?
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Old 07-26-2017
Welcome VenkatPVS,

I have a few to questions pose in response first:-
  • What have you tried so far?
  • What output/errors do you get?
  • What OS and version are you using?
  • What are your preferred tools? (C, shell, perl, awk, etc.)
  • What logical process have you considered? (to help steer us to follow what you are trying to achieve)
Most importantly, What have you tried so far?

There are probably many ways to achieve most tasks, so giving us an idea of your style and thoughts will help us guide you to an answer most suitable to you so you can adjust it to suit your needs in future.


We're all here to learn and getting the relevant information will help us all.


Kind regards,
Robin
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Old 07-27-2017
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Originally Posted by VenkatPVS
Please post if any having a working script?
Sorry, but this is not how it works: you will write your script! And while we will assist you, explain things to you, correct your code if necessary and help you in any possible way - we will not write it for you.


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Originally Posted by VenkatPVS
Am very new to shell scripting and would need help on a script that needs to be executed on a central server which takes IP, Flavor (AIX, Solaris, RHEL) as inputs and create a new account/user, update the existing users settings, delete or disable the users/accounts in those servers (AIX, Solaris, RHEL).
OK, two things: first a question. There are generalised user-directory services which could be used for that: LDAP, NIS, DCE, ... Why don't you use one of these? All the mentioned UNIX/Linux flavours could be brought to cooperate with these services and you would not even have to create or maintain local users.

Second, reagrding the script itself: it is possible to do this and in fact i have done so. Notice that - to do it right - this is an effort worth several thousand lines of code. Not even an expert in scripting will be able to do it in some spare minutes to kill. This is a regular software engineering project and you should treat it that way from the start. This means before you can write even one line of code you need a thorough plan, you need to have thought things through and you need to have a detailed and concise idea of what you are going to do - "manage users on many systems" is like "i want to design a car". As long as you do not know how motors, gearboxes, brakes, etc. work this will not succeed.

OK, let us start by planning some basics. Every user is identified by a user name and a (unique) ID. Usually you find both informations in a file called /etc/passwd. You might want to start by not creating a user account but a script (function) that just checks if a user exists already.

Now think about what could come out for such a check. Here are some sample conditions, you might find more:

- the file /etc/password doesn't exist or isn't readable
- the user name exists in an account, but with another UID
- the user ID exists in an account, but with another name
- both user name and ID exist, but in different users
- the user name exists and has the correct ID (-> this is the "success" case)

All these (and probably more, be creative) conditions will have to be checked and reported (to an eventual calling program) by the check-function/-script.

You should have an idea now of what it takes to do what you want and start the design process.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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