Adding users in AIX scripts

[mabandrew]

Does anyone have any scripts for adding users to AIX?

 

[bi]

There are a couple of scripts in this thread: thread52-610651

 

[Ogzilal]

#
#korn shell script that calls perl script
#

#----------------------------------------------------
# create the user
#----------------------------------------------------

NEWLOGIN=try1
mkuser pgrp=staff groups=staff gecos="user name" home=/home/$NEWLOGIN login=true shell=/usr/bin/ksh $NEWLOGIN
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "login $NEWLOGIN not created "
exit 1
fi

#----------------------------------------------------
# crypt the password for newlogin and add the stanza
# in /etc/security/passwd for AIX
#----------------------------------------------------
PASSWORD_FILE=/etc/security/passwd
PASSWORD=$NEWLOGIN # assign the login to the password

type perl 1>/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "perl not available in your PATH, please type in password"
pwdadm $NEWLOGIN
else
perl generate_crypted_pass.pl $PASSWORD_FILE $NEWLOGIN $PASSWORD
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "error in generating crypted password"
echo "please type in password for $NEWLOGIN"
pwdadm $NEWLOGIN
fi
# clear the flags for newlogin, so it is not prompted to
# change the password at first telnet connection
pwdadm -c $NEWLOGIN
fi
exit 0

#
#end of korn shell script that calls perl script
#

#
# begin of perl script named "generate_crypted_pass.pl "
# for generating crypted password
#

#-------------------------------------------------------------
# perl script for crypting readable password and writing
# the stanza in file passed as first parameter
#-------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

if ( $#ARGV < 2 ){
print &quot;Usage : $0 <password file> <login> <readable password>\n&quot;;
die;
}
use POSIX;
$ENV{'TZ'} = &quot;GMT&quot;;
#-------------------------------------------------------------
# get parameters
#-------------------------------------------------------------
$password_file=@ARGV[0];
$login=@ARGV[1];
$readable_password=@ARGV[2];

#-------------------------------------------------------------
# generate 2 chars ASCII for salt randomly in the set
# [./0-9A-Za-z]
#-------------------------------------------------------------

# generate first char

$hazard= int(rand()*100) + 26;
$c1=chr($hazard);
while ( $c1 !~ &quot;[./0-9A-Za-z]&quot; ) {
$hazard= int(rand()*100) + 26;
$c1=chr($hazard);
}
# generate 2nd char
$hazard= int(rand()*100) + 26;
$c2=chr($hazard);
while ( $c2 !~ &quot;[./0-9A-Za-z]&quot; ) {
$hazard= int(rand()*100) + 26;
$c2=chr($hazard);
}


# concatenate the 2 chars to make salt
$salt=&quot;$c1$c2&quot;;

# crypt the readable password
$crypted_password = crypt($readable_password,$salt) ;
# generate last modification time of password since epoch
$last_pass_change = POSIX::time() ;
#-------------------------------------------
# write the stanza in the password file
#-------------------------------------------
open (OUT, &quot;>>$password_file&quot || die &quot;cannot open $password_file: $!.\n&quot;;
print OUT<<EOF;
$login:
password = $crypted_password
lastupdate = $last_pass_change
flags =

EOF
exit 0
#
#end of perl script for generating crypted password
#

 

[mabandrew]

This looks very good!!

This is what I came up with. The problem I am having is that if a user enters the loginid i upper case. How would I convert it to lower case?

!/bin/ksh
echo Enter user login with no special characters and no longer than 8 characters and all lower case. Example: jsmith
echo Enter user login
read loginID
echo Enter user information: Example: Joe Smith
read username
echo Enter Group information: Example: staff
read group
echo Enter groups used by the user seperated by commas: Example: staff,dba,accounting
read groups
grep $loginID /etc/passwd
if [ $? -ne 1 ]
then
echo 'already in system '
else
echo &quot;Adding user...&quot; $loginID
mkuser pgrp=&quot;$group&quot; groups=&quot;$groups&quot; gecos=&quot;$username&quot; shell=&quot;/usr/bin/ksh&quot; home=&quot;/home/$loginID&quot; $loginID
echo &quot;Making user directory...&quot; $loginID
mkdir /usr/$loginID
chown $loginID:$group /home/$loginID
echo &quot;Setting unix users password for &quot; $loginID
passwd $loginID
echo &quot;Set password...&quot;
fi

 

[unixtechie]

typeset -l loginIDx=$loginID # sets var to lower case