On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Eric Furman wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:15:56 +0100, "Ingo Schwarze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> > On first sight, an additional option "remove from group" to usermod(8)
> > might not hurt much. As a second thought, how would you call it, -g
> > and -G are already occupied; yet it is important for learners to
> > have option names as few and as mnemonic as possible, and please lets
> > not get into --remove-from-group. As a third thought, what might be
> > the next special case that somebody could come up with for plausible
> > reasons? And finally, once you add an option, you have to live with
> > it for good, as somebody will certainly rely on it.
>
> instead of usermod -G group; to add to group. you could
> usermod -G - group; to remove from group
> just a thought...
>
> but as has been pointed out, it is trivial to write a script
> that would automatically go out and modify /etc/group
> on even a large number of boxes.
>
> This is rough, needs polishing, use at own risk, blah blah...
>
> BOXES="server1 server 2 server3. . ."
>
> for box in $BOXES
> do
> { sleep 5;echo "username";sleep 2;echo "password";sleep 2;
> echo"sudo do some command left as exercise for reader";
> sleep 3;echo "exit"; } |telnet $box 2>>/tmp/rcmd.error 1>/dev/null
> done
You got to be kidding. This is the worst script I've seen in ages.
-Otto
