Topic: Adding a _complete_ user via command line

[Doug Nordwall]

How does one add a complete user via the command line, with database updates and the like. I imagine it's not jsut a single command line.

Reason I am asking is that I'm looking to build an rpm for snort and would like to use a snort user. Perhaps it will even go so far as to have a snort group or something

[Dan Brown]

Try taking a look at Darrel's script at http://myezserver.com/docs/mitel/addusers-howto.html.  Should at least get you started...

[Raffaele capasso]

I have tried launch this script

The script below will read in a text file containing user information and automatically create and set up e-smith user accounts.  This is perfect for quickly adding multiple users to e-smith.
Simply cut and paste the entire script below (including the last line "done") into a file called e-smith-adduser.sh

Then create a text file called adduserlist.txt with the following format:

USERNAME1:FIRSTNAME1:LASTNAME1
USERNAME2:FIRSTNAME2:LASTNAME2

and place both the files in the /root directory.

To execute, login as root, change to the /root directory and enter (including the "."):

[root@e-smith /root]# . e-smith-adduser.sh
 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
#!/bin/sh
#
# USAGE:
#
# Create the file /root/adduserlist.txt in the following format:
#
# USERNAME1:FIRSTNAME1:LASTNAME1
# USERNAME2:FIRSTNAME2:LASTNAME2
#
# and so on...
#
# This script will create user accounts, mail accounts and pseudonyms for all the listed users in the /root/adduserlist.txt file.
#
# NOTE *By default usernames/passwords are set to the same value*
#

UFILE=/root/adduserlist.txt

if [ ! -f $UFILE ]; then
echo User database $UFILE missing
exit
fi

# export record=cat $UFILE
# if [ "$record" != "" ]; then

# --------------------------
# Make sure the lines below are all indented as shown
# --------------------------
   for record in cat $UFILE
   do
   username=echo $record | awk -F":" {'print $1'}
   firstname=echo $record | awk -F":" {'print $2'}
   lastname=echo $record | awk -F":" {'print $3'}
   uid=echo $record | awk -F":" {'print $4'}
   number=$RANDOM

# ----------------------
# Set values for account
# ----------------------
#
# Available values and options are shown below as 'option' :
#
# FirstName $firstname
# LastName $lastname
# Dept 'department'
# Company 'company name'
# Street 'address'
# City 'city, postal, prov/state, country'
# Phone 'phone number'
# EmailForward 'local, forward, both'
# ForwardAddress 'leave blank or enter forward address'
#
# Below are the minimum values with no changes required
#
/sbin/e-smith/db accounts set $username user FirstName $firstname LastName $lastname PasswordSet no Uid $number Gid $number

# ---------------
# Create Account
# ---------------
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event user-create $username

# ---------------
# Pause Script, bug reported by Jeffrey Smith
# ---------------
sleep 3

# ----------------
# Create Password
# -----------------------------------------------------
# (in this case the username and password are the same)
# eg: ( '$username', 'PASSWORD' );"
# -----------------------------------------------------
perl -e "use esmith::util; esmith::util::setUserPassword ( '$username', '$username' );"

# ---------------------------------
# Set value for password as created
# ---------------------------------
/sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop $username PasswordSet yes

# ---------------------------------------------------------
# Create Pseudonym (FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME@domain.org)
# Create Pseudonym (FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME@domain.org)
# (simple comment these lines out to not create Pseudonyms)
# ---------------------------------------------------------
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event pseudonym-create $firstname.$lastname $username
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event pseudonym-create $firstname_$lastname $username

done
 
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.... but it seems not to work why it gives one series of errors.  If it
works e-mail me.

Thank you