Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:04:43 +0800 (PHT)
From: dwen <dwen@accessway.ph>
Subject: Re: Creation of remote home directories Re: rsync



thank you very much.

ill try this !


dwen
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, you wrote:

> 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 ...
>