[wplug] BASH

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I'm not sure how to solve the bash problem, but su has an option "-c" that 
lets you just execute a single command as the user in question.  This 
should solve your problem.

Bryguy


On Fri, 9 May 2003 vze2f6h6 at verizon.net wrote:

> I have been reading the TLDP.org's howto for Advanced Bash scripting but still can't figure this out.  Here is my script.
> 
> for name in $(awk '{print $1)' < "./user")
> do
>   echo "$name";
>   /usr/sbin/useradd $name;
>   /bin/su $name;
>   /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir;
>   XXXXXX
>   /usr/sbin/usermod -s /sbin/nologin $name;
> done
> 
> exit 0
> 
> Now the problem is where the XXXXXX is in the script.  I want to exit out of the "su".  Everything that I try just exits me from the script.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Romano
> 
> 
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