Hi

I have a bunch of default files in my skel directory, problem is, when i
adduser the files are just copied keeping the user that created them in the
skel dir owner, i need the newly added user to be owner of the files copied
to his home dir, I've been trying to add a chown command to the adduser
script, but I've never done scripts before so I have no idea where to start
or what I'm doing wrong.
Any help/ideas?
I tried googling for it but came up empty (I have a nasty habbit of always
using the wrong words :-()

Thanks
Morten

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Morten Lundstrøm dared to utter,
> I've been trying to add a chown command to the adduser
> script, but I've never done scripts before so I have no idea where to start
> or what I'm doing wrong.
> Any help/ideas?

Here's what I would do. (Many lines snipped.) This is on a Slackware
9.0 machine. Your version may be slightly different.

# Add the account to the system
CMD="$useradd "$HME" -m "$EXP" "$U_ID" "$GID" "$AGID" "$SHL" "$LOGIN""
$CMD

if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
echo "- Error running useradd command -- account not created!"
echo "(cmd: $CMD)"
exit 1
fi

# These next few lines are what you need to add.
# Copy the contents of /etc/skel to the user's home directory.
cp -aR /etc/skel/* "${HME}"

# Change the owner and group of those files.
chown -R "${U_ID}":"${GID}" "${HME}"

# Set the finger information
$chfn "$LOGIN"
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
echo "- Warning: an error occurred while setting finger information"
fi

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> I have a bunch of default files in my skel directory, problem is, when
> i adduser the files are just copied keeping the user that created them
> in the skel dir owner, i need the newly added user to be owner of the
> files copied to his home dir, I've been trying to add a chown command
> to the adduser script, but I've never done scripts before so I have no
> idea where to start or what I'm doing wrong.
> Any help/ideas?

The useradd command does this for you. This is the DEFAULT behavoir.

moya:/etc/skel# ls
moya:/etc/skel# touch mumu
moya:/etc/skel# ls -l mumu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 21 10:36 mumu
moya:/etc/skel# useradd -m test
moya:/etc/skel# ls -l /home/test/mumu
-rw-r--r-- 1 test users 0 Feb 21 10:36 /home/test/mumu

Just be sure to use -m or to use adduser script in order the homedir to
be created and files copied!

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"Claudiu Cismaru" <claudiu@cnixs.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:c175h8$1f298e$1@ID-225382.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > I have a bunch of default files in my skel directory, problem is, when
> > i adduser the files are just copied keeping the user that created them
> > in the skel dir owner, i need the newly added user to be owner of the
> > files copied to his home dir, I've been trying to add a chown command
> > to the adduser script, but I've never done scripts before so I have no
> > idea where to start or what I'm doing wrong.
> > Any help/ideas?
>
> The useradd command does this for you. This is the DEFAULT behavoir.
>
> moya:/etc/skel# ls
> moya:/etc/skel# touch mumu
> moya:/etc/skel# ls -l mumu
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 21 10:36 mumu
> moya:/etc/skel# useradd -m test
> moya:/etc/skel# ls -l /home/test/mumu
> -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 0 Feb 21 10:36 /home/test/mumu

Hehe, I must have been sleepy when I did it, I only had 3 users on my system
when I changed my skel dir, so I decided just to manually copy the files,
next day when I checked the ownership was incorrect... *oops*
Sorry for taking your time with a stupid question like that one :-)

/Morten

"Alan Hicks" <1001298936@carrier.lizella.net> skrev i en meddelelse
news:slrnc3d81b.au3.1001298936@carrier.lizella.net ...
> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Morten Lundstrøm dared to utter,
> > I've been trying to add a chown command to the adduser
> > script, but I've never done scripts before so I have no idea where to
start
> > or what I'm doing wrong.
> > Any help/ideas?
>
> Here's what I would do. (Many lines snipped.) This is on a Slackware
> 9.0 machine. Your version may be slightly different.
>
> # Add the account to the system
> CMD="$useradd "$HME" -m "$EXP" "$U_ID" "$GID" "$AGID" "$SHL" "$LOGIN""
> $CMD
>
> if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
> echo "- Error running useradd command -- account not created!"
> echo "(cmd: $CMD)"
> exit 1
> fi
>
> # These next few lines are what you need to add.
> # Copy the contents of /etc/skel to the user's home directory.
> cp -aR /etc/skel/* "${HME}"
>
> # Change the owner and group of those files.
> chown -R "${U_ID}":"${GID}" "${HME}"
>
> # Set the finger information
> $chfn "$LOGIN"
> if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
> echo "- Warning: an error occurred while setting finger information"
> fi

Thanks, I just figured my mistake out myself, Sorry for taking your time :-)

/Morten

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