Shell Scripting Help...

[webking]

Hi all,

How difficult is it to get this pseudo code to work under SHELL? This is the task I do every day. I m not sure how to start it. can anyone help?

useradd username
usermod -g username username
passwd username
vi /etc/passwd
define home dir
cd ~username
remove all data
then go to /home/usrbak
cp username.tar.gz to /tmp
cd tmp
gzip -d username.tar.gz
tar -xf username.tar
mv * ~username
vi /usr/local/apache/conf/include-conf/vhosts
add the domain within the vhost
cd ~username
chown -R username:username .
chmod -R 755 .
service httpd restart

Any assistance would be helpful. Thanks in adv.

[falko]

You could write a little script for it.

[cfajohnson]

Most of what you are doing can be done with useradd itself. Read the man page.

The (moderately) tricky part is encrypting the password. I use a compiled C program as a front end to crypt(3):

/********************************
NAME: crypt.c
AUTHOR: Chris F.A. Johnson
DATE: 2003-01-23
********************************/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char *passwd;
char buf[1024];
char *salt;

if (argc > 1)
{
salt = argv[1];
puts(salt);
}
else
{
/* salt = "$1$!@#$%^&*"; */
salt = NULL;
}

fgets(buf,sizeof(buf),stdin);
if ( buf[strlen(buf)-1] == '\n' )
{
buf[strlen(buf) - 1] = '\0';
}
printf( "%s\n", encrypt(buf, salt));

return 0;
}
/********************************/

Do not use vi in a script. Describe what you want to do, and script it directly.

[sjau]

Well, I think it's not that hard to make a bash script that does this...