On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 09:18, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > However, how do you deal with automatic user creation, and assigning > permissions to, say /usr/www/bob? When you use useradd to add a new > user, it only assigns permissions to the $HOME directory. As far as I > can see, I'd have to manually go create /usr/www/bob, and chown it to > user bob. > You script it, that's how. Note that the following is "pseudo-code" and will need work, but it should give you a rough general idea. #!/bin/bash # # usernew v.0.1 # Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # Last Changed: 2004.08.17 if [ incorrect command-line parameters given ] ; then print help and usage message exit 1 fi USERNAME=$0 REALNAME=$1 PASSWORD=$2 useradd -c $realname $username echo $password | passwd --stdin mkdir /usr/www/bob chown -R bob.bob /usr/www/bob ln -s /usr/www/bob /home/bob/www # EOF Lots of other stuff you can do, too. Anything you can do at the command line, you can pretty quickly script with the shell. I would attempt to make sure that this script is *not* interactive and gets its parameters from the command-line, since then I could also quickly write another script to go through a properly formatted array or text file and create any number of users at will with very little work. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Simpaticus.com
