topic Re: User creation !! in Operating System - HP-UX

User creation !!

Whitehorse_1 — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:21:21 GMT

Gentlemen,,(Doubt in Shell script)

Is ther anyways, I can create username with passwd inputs(non-interactive) through shell script.

Thxs, WH

Re: User creation !!

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:26:07 GMT

Hi:

You can create a password with 'crypt' and update the '/etc/passwd' file accordingly for the user(s) in question.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: User creation !!

Calandrello — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:27:46 GMT

Friend if you only desire to have a user, but that it does not effect login in the SO she creates a usuario: useradd username and blocks the usuario: passwd - l username

Re: User creation !!

Whitehorse_1 — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:37:07 GMT

Hi JRF,

My requirement is to create 15 users across 50 servers. So i prepared a script will all inputs. But I couldnt set my default passwd through the script.

Anyways to do this.. WH

Re: User creation !!

Tim Nelson — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:03:47 GMT

I have a script that creates the commands from a master file. That file is then distibuted to the proper server. I log into each server and run the script which creates all the user accounts. With this exception. The script runs modprpw -x on the account to gen a temp password for the user. This may be different from what you are looking for.

One thought if using HPUX Trusted system is to use sed to replace the /tcb/files/auth/X/user encrypted password entry or just copy the file from the already setup entry on another host.

Re: User creation !!

Peter Godron — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:15:11 GMT

Hi,
did you read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1050251
and
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=188522

If you have 50 servers to control, why not use NIS ?

Re: User creation !!

Doug O'Leary — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:23:30 GMT

Hey;

/usr/sam/lbin/useradd.sam accepts a -p option for supplying an encrypted password. Unlike the regular useradd (to which it's soft-linked, figure that one out), it doesn't automatically create the home directories so you'll have to use other steps for that.

1. Manually add a user and set the password to what you want as the default.

2. Obtain that password and store it in your script.

3. Inline function (w/assumptions on what your datafile looks like)

cat ${file} | while read user pwd uid gid Groups gecos home shell
do
/usr/sam/lbin/useradd.sam -p ${pwd} \
-u ${uid} \
-g ${gid} \
-G ${Groups} \
-c "${gecos}" \
-s ${shell} \
-d ${home} ${user}
mkdir -p ${home}
cp /etc/skel/.[A-z]* ${home}
chown -R ${user}:${gid} ${home}
done

Note that you'll want to protect this script as you would the shadow password file - ie root read only, in a directory structure that is accessible only by root.

HTH;

Doug