>> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:44:53 +0200, >> Lauri Laupmaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
L> Is there a simple solution for creating all user directories under L> /home? So, I have clean /home filesystem and hundreds of users in L> /etc/*passwd. Hopefully there is some simple command or script :) Create a subset of the passwd file with the user, group, and home directory only: # cut -f1,4,6 -d: /etc/passwd | grep /home/ | sed -e 's/:/ /g' > /tmp/pw Create the directory tree. You need the '-p' flag in mkdir if you have multiple levels of directories under /home: # awk '{print "mkdir -p", $3}' /tmp/pw | sh Next, set permissions. Use 750 instead of 755 if you don't want world read access to user's home directories: # awk '{print "chmod 755", $3}' /tmp/pw | sh If you want to populate the home directories with some default dot files (.profile, etc) you can do something like # cd /etc/skel # awk '{print "find . -print | cpio -pdum", $3}' /tmp/pw Finally, set ownerships. This assumes you want the user's home directory and files owned by the user and the default user's group: # awk '{print "chown -R", $1"."$2, $3}' /tmp/pw | sh # rm /tmp/pw -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~vogelke If all the veins in your body were laid end to end, you'd be dead. --unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"