I have a system with several different users and would like to use cron to run
this script as root:
#!/bin/bash
for user in `ls /home/`; do
# echo "Path: $user"
if [ "${user:0:1}" != "0" ]; then
path="/home/$user/Backup"
if [ -e $path ]; then
echo "Calling backup for user: $user"
sudo -u $user /usr/local/bin/user-backup
fi
fi
done
The idea is that instead of adding a backup script every time I add a user,
this script will go through the /home directories and skip any that start with
a 0 (a program I'm using creates some directories there, but starts their names
with a 0) and automatically call the generic backup script for that user.
The problem is sudo can't be run without a tty, so I can run it myself, but it
won't run from a script.
I want the backup script to run under each user's name to match the user on the
backup system.
Are there other ways to do this with an "all-in-one" approach? Either for a
script run as root to run scripts with the id of the users or some generic way
to tell cron to run a script once for each user that meets certain conditions?
I prefer the all-in-one solutions, since when I add a user, I'm adding it to
their system, to this backup NAS, and to an offsite backup NAS, and even though
I use notes, it's easy to forget having to do extra things when adding a user.
So I'd really prefer a solution that handles all of them at once.
Any other way I can do this?
Thanks!
Hal
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