Hi, There is a section in "Perl for system administration (O'reilly)" that covers account management. The examples use the useradd / userdel commands instead of editing the password files directly - this they say handles all the file locking for you :) . Passwords are changed using some nice use of expect.pm
Im working on a simialr project using these example as a base to work from. Does anyone see any big NO-No's with this???? Regards Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Colson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:24 PM Subject: Can I use PERL to add/remove /etc/passwd entries > I'm curious to know if someone could point me in the right direction to find > out how to manipulate the /etc/passwd file and/or the /etc/shadow file. > > I know about getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, but these just let me recreate > the structure of the file, I want to be able to modify it. Mostly to change > the GCOS fields, and occasionally to rename a user. > > Joshua Colson > Systems Administrator > Giant Industries, Inc. > (480) 585-8714 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
