topic Re: validate a user in a script in Operating System - HP-UX

validate a user in a script

Patrice Blanchard_2 — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:51:17 GMT

Hi,

what is wrong with this picture?

user=`whoami`
if $user = "bsp150"
then
user="blanchap"
else
fi

All i want to do is change the variable user to blanchap if user that is running the script is bsp150.

i'm missing something.

regards

PB

Re: validate a user in a script

Slawomir Gora — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:56:08 GMT

Hi,

try this

#!/bin/sh
user=`whoami`
if [ "$user" = "bsp150" ]
then
user="blanchap"
fi

Re: validate a user in a script

Pete Randall — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:58:16 GMT

Patrice,

Try this:

user=`whoami`
echo $user
if [ $user = "bsp150" ]
then
user="blanchap"
fi
echo $user

Pete

Re: validate a user in a script

Biswajit Tripathy — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:55:31 GMT

How about:

usr=$(whoami | sed 's/^bsp150$//')
echo ${usr:="blanchap"}

- Biswajit