Re: home directories...
> I need to write a script which will run once a night, and check each
> user's home directory for a certain file. Does anybody know the best way
> to do this? The only thing I can think of is to parse /etc/passwd to get
> the home dir of each user of UID > 999. Is this the correct way to do it?
> What routines should one use when parsing /etc/passwd?
If all the users' home directories are in /home, then you probably
just want something like:
find /home -name .rhosts -print
If you really *must* parse /etc/passwd, because your system is set up
in a strange way, you could use a shell script which does something
like:
#!/bin/sh
cat /etc/passwd |
while read pwline
do
user=`split -d: -f1 $pwline`
home=`split -d: -f6 $pwline`
found=`find $home -name .rhosts -print`
if [ ! -z "$found" ]; then echo "Found for $user: $found"; fi
done
You could also write a Perl script to do the same.
HTH,
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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