[SOLVED] Help for a linux -Debian script

BW-userx · 02-04-2018, 06:39 PM

Hold everything: you state here
part of your test file
Turcotte Michael 219 1795259 1795259@bdeb.qc.ca

the file contain 5 column
lastname - firstname - group -DA - email

making 291 the group? I do not know what the DA is. if you're putting this into a loop and reading it in, you will not be able to use different groups for each user as input because your script is running and reading in the contents of the file itself or it should yes? it should read the contents of the file and off your file get all of the information needed to check for group, if no group created group, add user to the system, giving user same group. as it looks all of the groups are the same 219, if that is to be the GID of whatever group you are naming then you are using the same group and GID for everyone.

to cut out the 219 pout of each line in the file using a loop to get to each line, one at a time.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#1. check if there is 2 parameter
if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then
{
	echo "Please enter 2 parameters"
	exit
}
fi

GROUP=$1
FILE=$2
count=1

while IFS= read -r varname; do
 
	FNAME="$(echo $varname | cut -d ' ' -f 1 )"
	echo $FNAME
	GROUP="$(echo $varname | cut -d ' ' -f 3 )"
	echo $GROUP
	echo $((count++))
	
done < "$FILE"

you should be able to figure out the rest from there, taking from everything you've already added to your knowledge base from everyone's response in this post.

if not then feel free to ask more questions.

snakes3177 · 02-04-2018, 06:44 PM

BW-userx · 02-04-2018, 07:19 PM

different methods of generating a password in Linux

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3018...-command-line/

snakes3177 · 02-05-2018, 07:42 AM

BW-userx · 02-05-2018, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snakes3177

the site you gave me is where i found this command line:

PASS=$(Strings/dev/urandom | tr -dc '0-9a-z' | head -c8

i tested it and it work.

this is good, yes? because yours was not working on mine... could have been me, could have been your script with all of the misspelling using caps, whatever, no matter, now you have more options to get the same, yes? carry on dude, and let the penguin be with you.

astrogeek · 02-18-2018, 06:07 PM

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