[K12OSN] More scripting help...
Shawn Powers
spowers at inlandlakes.org
Thu Sep 8 13:07:45 UTC 2005
Ok, I'm sorry to use this list as my personal scripting helpline --
but it's the third day of school, and I'm in a real bind... (DNS pun
not intended)
Here's my script for changing passwords:
#!/usr/bin/expect
# script name mypasswd
set username [lindex $argv 0]
set password [lindex $argv 1]
set name [lindex $argv 2]
spawn passwd $username
expect "password:"
send "$password\r"
expect "password:"
send "$password\r"
spawn chfn -f "$name" $username
expect eof
it works, as long as I put the "name" in quotes (due to the issue of
spaces)
In my bulk script, however, I can't seem to get the variable assigned
correctly. I don't know how to make it assign the whole name (both
first and last) with the space. Here's my bulk script:
#!/bin/bash
# script name mybulkpasswd
for lines in `cat $1`
do
username=`echo $lines | awk -F: '{print $1}'`;
password=`echo $lines | awk -F: '{print $2}'`;
name="`echo $lines | awk -F: '{print $3}'`";
mypasswd $username $password "$name";
done
Here's an example bulk file:
testuser:testpass:Test User
test1:test1:Test Account 1
Any more insight?
Thanks, and I am sorry for all my questions,
-Shawn
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