Ron Powell [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>I was recently reading Linux Administrators Handbook (by the same folks who
*>wrote Unix System Administrators Handbook) and it mentioned that you could
*>write a perl script to add users, set their passwords, etc.
*>
*>The question is, could someone point m
Ron --
...and then Ron Powell said...
%
...
% > Thus, you should probably go back to your LAH and read up on
% > what it has to say about adding users, and see if there is a
% > "useradd" or "adduser" or similar script provided (what
...
%
% Heh, yeah, there are automated tools called adduse
>
> Thus, you should probably go back to your LAH and read up on
> what it has to say about adding users, and see if there is a
> "useradd" or "adduser" or similar script provided (what
> flavor of Linux are you using?) to see what it does (it might
> be quite sufficient), and then you'll ha
--- Ron Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was recently reading Linux Administrators Handbook (by the
> same folks who wrote Unix System Administrators Handbook)
> and it mentioned that you could write a perl script to add
> users, set their passwords, etc.
>
> The question is, could someone p
Ron --
...and then Ron Powell said...
%
% I was recently reading Linux Administrators Handbook (by the same folks who
% wrote Unix System Administrators Handbook) and it mentioned that you could
Do you mean Nemeth/Seebass/Snyder/Hein? If so, it's probably a very
good book; their UNIX SA's book
Off the top of my head I can't think of anything better than system
calls, and my books are at work, but you could simply use another system
command:
$who = `whoami`;
$finger = `finger $who`;
now, if that account has multiple logins, or multiple users using the
same account (tsk on them) you will
My apologies -
I use:
$who = `whoami`;
not
$who = `who`;
Thanks,
--Bill
- Original Message -
From: "Simas Cepaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Pierson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject:
Good day ;-)
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:20:08AM -0400, Bill Pierson wrote:
> Good morning, afternoon, or evening depending on when you read this. :o)
>
> To aid in system administration and to track whom is accessing my servers, I wrote a
>little PERL script that is called from /etc/bashrc. As
