Sure. Ill try that out. Sorry for the delayed response. I'm stuck in setting up Arch in a VM. I'm in iteration 4 now. I have managed to install it, but I;m having issue with pacman. Will tryt today and share my the errors in a new thread.
Thanks, Suhail On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:27 PM Nikhilesh Susarla <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020, 20:40 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 >> > > Why do you have mentioning two shells ? > > > 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} >> > > For a fast check, you can run these individual commands on terminal. > > Set $username, $password, $comment in the shell. > Then execute the useradd command and the password command. If they work. > Then the script should not have a problem. You can verify it that way too. > > 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. >> >> Can you please describe what is the exact syntax error you getting? > > > Thank you. > Susarla Nikhilesh > > >>>
