Hi Kwan,
Nice looking script, but did you try it? But it seems to have problems,
getting the fields mixed up..
Cheers
Mark
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 23:14, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 08:39, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> > Hi List!
> >
> > I'll set up a new server (MDK 8.0 -> 9.1) and I would like to
> > keep the same users, but without cloning or copying /home folders. I
> > know I can copy /etc/passwd file. But I don't know how to regenerate
> > automatically new /home/users folders (from /etc/skel ?) without using
> > userdrake (or similar). I would like to keep gid and uid numbers.
> >
> > Is there a way, how-to, or tip to do it.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for any help.
>
> You could do something like this:
> #!/bin/bash
>
>
> for item in `cat /etc/passwd`; do
> USERNAME=`echo $item | cut -d: -f1`
> USERID=`echo $item | cut -d: -f3`
> GROUPID=`echo $item | cut -d: -f4`
> COMMENT=`echo $item | cut -d: -f5`
> USERDIR=`echo $item | cut -d: -f6`
> USERSHL=`echo $item | cut -d: -f7`
>
> echo useradd -u ${USERID} -g ${GROUPID} -c ${COMMENT} \
> -d ${USERDIR} -s ${USERSHL} ${USERNAME}
> done
>
>
> Remove the "echo" to actually run the command.
>
> Let me know if you'd prefer an awk version...
>
>
>
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