Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 06:36:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: One for the script gurus Message-ID: <20010823063655.B824@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20010822180751.C21857@ns2.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:07:51PM %2B0300 References: <20010822163649.B98728@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010822144333.H91302-100000@r2d2.twowaytv.co.uk> <20010822180751.C21857@ns2.wananchi.com>
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From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
Subject: Re: One for the script gurus
Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:07:51PM +0300
> The response was overwhelming. I am very grateful to everyone who
> contributed. Now the task remains with me to decide which way forward with
> all the variations in your responses.
Well, I couldn't resist throwing my own Perl version of this among the
followups. Here is a little Perl script that will avoid accidentally
creating /nonexistent homedirs, and will use the HOME directory field
from the password file instead of assuming that all your users have
their HOME dir under /home or something similar.
Modifying this to use STDIN for input in order to make it a filter is
trivial enough that you should be able to easily do it.
#!/usr/bin/perl
open(PWD, "</etc/passwd") || die "can't read /etc/passwd";
LINE:
while (defined($line =3D <PWD>)) {
chomp $line;
next LINE if ($line =3D~ m/^[\s]*#/);
@uinfo =3D split /:/, $line;
$user =3D $uinfo[0];
$group =3D $uinfo[3];
$home =3D $uinfo[5];
# skip /nonexistent homedirs
next LINE if ($home eq "/nonexistent");
# make sure that / is not accidentally chown'ed to
# something else than root:wheel
next LINE if ($home eq "/");
print "mkdir -p $home ; chown ${user}:${group} $home\n";
}
close PWD;
-giorgos
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