topic Re: useradd script in Operating System - HP-UX

useradd script

Angela Swyers_1 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 12:47:47 GMT

Does anyone have an example of a useradd script that creates the new user/group with the next and same id#?

Re: useradd script

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:08:14 GMT

Hi,

If you don't specify the -u UID option in the useradd command, it will automatically assign the next UID after the currently assignet highest UID.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: useradd script

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:09:33 GMT

Same goes for the groupadd command.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: useradd script

Angela Swyers_1 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:11:36 GMT

I want to keep my uids and gids the same. How would I do this?

Re: useradd script

Sundar_7 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:21:03 GMT

You want to keep your UID and GID the same ?- Why would you do that ?

Are you looking to create a seperate group entry for each user ? - doesnt sound like a good idea.

As noted above by Sanjay, if you dont mention the UID, useradd will automatically take the next available UID.

You can try something like this

useradd .....
grep "^username" /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $4}' | read ID
groupadd -g $ID

Re: useradd script

Angela Swyers_1 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:25:17 GMT

Yes, I want a group for each user. We are trying to get LDAP authentication working with our Novell environment and this is how my network administrator is setting up the users in Novell, so I need to do the same in HP-UX.

Re: useradd script

Sundar_7 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:32:52 GMT

OK.. You can try something like this

#!/usr/bin/sh

echo "Enter Username: \c"
read USERNAME

useradd -d /home/$USERNAME -m $USERNAME

grep "^${USERNAME}" /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $4}' | read ID

echo "Enter Groupname: \c"
read GNAME
groupadd -g $ID $GNAME

Re: useradd script

Angela Swyers_1 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:44:14 GMT

Thank you! That's exactly what I needed. I just needed to add a usermod at the end to change teh uid to match the new group that was created, and I needed to change the $4 to $3 so it created teh group with the same id as the user.

Re: useradd script

Angela Swyers_1 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:47:29 GMT

Thanks for your help.