Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:42:58 -0500 (EST)
To: dwen <dwen@acacia.cav.pworld.net.ph>
Subject: Creation of remote home directories Re: rsync

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, dwen wrote:

> but im not good in programming.
> can you do that for me ?

I hope this is not a home work assignment ... if so, you
should be doing it.


#!/bin/sh
#
cp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.tmp
diff /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd.old > /tmp/newusers
grep '^<' /tmp/newusers | awk {'print $2 '} | \
	awk -F ":" {'print $1',":",$6} \
	> /tmp/newarray
for i in `cat /tmp/newarray`; do
	THEUSER=` echo $i | awk -F ":" {'print $1'} `
	HOMES=` echo $i | awk -F ":" {'print $2'} `
	mkdir $HOMES
	chown $THEUSER.$THEUSER $HOMES
	chmod 755 $HOMES
done
mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd.old
rm /tmp/newarray cat /tmp/newusers
#


This is untested, but should work ... I encourage you to
study the code, and test it, a line at a time, to see how it
works.


> > 1. save a copy of the password file as passwd.tmp
> >
> > 2. diff it against a file 'passwd.old'
> >
> > 3. if the diff is non-null, create a local home directory for
> > each newly added userid, found by the diff
> >
> > 4. rename passwd.tmp to passwd.old
> >
> > 5. exit
> >
> > Hope this helps ...