topic Another easy one... in Operating System - HP-UX

Another easy one...

TheJuiceman — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 21:52:50 GMT

Here's another one. What is an easy way to test if a user exists on a system? I want to test for a user's existence and then use that ID to chmod a directory. Thanks.

Re: Another easy one...

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 22:24:35 GMT

Hi Bobby,

There are quite a few ways like grepping the user from /etc/passwd, commands like logins, id etc.,. I use 'pwget'.

USER=Your_user_name
pwget -n $USER |grep -q "^${USER}:"
if [[ $? = 0 ]]
then
Your_chmod_commands
else
echo "$USER does not exist"
fi

-Sri

Re: Another easy one...

TheJuiceman — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 23:52:11 GMT

Sri, you are awesome!!! I never would have come up with that. Thanks a million for the help!!!