On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:10:19PM +0330, Alikhani wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:10:19 +0330
> From: Alikhani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: sudo
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I write a script that contains:
> #!/bin/bash
> echo "Enter username: "
> read username
> /usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/$username -m $username
> /usr/bin/quotatool -u $username -bq 10M -l 10M /var/spool/mail
> /usr/bin/quotatool -u $username -bq 1-M -l 10M /home
> -------------------------------------------------------
> but when admin as a user run this script the system says:
> useradd: unable to lock password file
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> what changing is need for solving this problem?
The script is a Good Idea [tm]
However you might want to consider:
# The script should read input
# check it (username lowercase, length, alpha or alphanum,
# nothing politically or otherwise incorrect)
# then
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/$luser -m $luser
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/quotatool \
-u $luser -bq 10M -l 10M /var/spool/mail
# and so on
In other words, your script can run as admin,
doing all the parsing, sanity-checking, whatever
as a normal user, and only go to `/usr/bin/sudo $something`
when you know that $something is OK and reasonable.
Richard
--
Vegetarians eat vegetables. That's OK.
It's the Humanitarians I'm worried about.
Have a nice day ;-) Richard Higson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
