useradd script

[Angela Swyers_1]

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

[Sanjay_6]

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

[Sanjay_6]

Same goes for the groupadd command.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Angela Swyers_1]

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

[Sundar_7]

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

[Angela Swyers_1]

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.

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

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

[Angela Swyers_1]

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.

[Angela Swyers_1]

Thanks for your help.