I think the syntax of useradd and the pipe for passwd is not working
properly. I would love to move forward from this as I'm stuck here
Thank you guys.
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:28 PM Muhammed Suhail <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello again, Ragini,
>
> So I used [[ $UID != 0 ]] to check for root.
>
> @Nikhilesh I modified the script and find below the latest iteration:
> #!/bin/bash
> #!/bin/sh
> if [[ $UID != 0 ]]
> then
> exit 1
> fi
>
> if [[ $?=0 ]]
> then
> read -p 'Enter the new username' $USER_NAME
> read -p 'Enter Real name' $COMMENT
> read -p 'Enter password' $PASSWORD
> else
> exit 1
> fi
> #create account
> if [[ "${?}" == 0 ]]
> then
> useradd -c "${COMMENT}"-m $USER_NAME
> echo $PASSWORD | passwd --stdin ${USER_NAME}
> echo Working...
> else
> echo not working
> exit 1
> fi
>
> if [[ $? == 0 ]]
> then
> echo "Account Created" "Username: ${user_name}, Host: ${HOSTNAME}"
>
>
> Issues:
> -So I had a previous iteration which gives an error "Unexpected end of
> file"
> - The script fails at the useradd command.
>
>
> Thanks for the help @Nikhilesh @ Ragini
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 12:18 PM RAGINI <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > -------Original Message-------
>> > From: Muhammed Suhail <[email protected]>
>> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> > Subject: [foss] Need help
>> > Sent: May 02 '20 21:15
>> >
>> > Hey I'm trying to run the following script. But the program is not
>> > running after the initial input stage:
>> >
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> >
>> > if [[ $UID != 0 ]]
>> > then
>> > exit 1
>> > fi
>> >
>> If you run this part of the code, what do you get ?
>>
>> And can you explain this step over here.
>>
>> thanks
>> Ragini
>>
>
