help script variable

[alexia32]

Hi,

I have an variable that contains usernames
TMAIX = usernam1, unernam2, unsernam3 etc...

What I want to do if I have to add a new user on sudoers on the TMAIX I would like to check first if this new user already there (so for that I am using cat file|grep -q usernam and check $?) but I need help to add the new user at the end of the line...

Thanks in advance

Cheers
Al.

 

[khalidaaa]

Try this:

TMAIX=$TMAIX$usernam

in case you want to put comma then it would be like this

TMAIX=$TMAIX,$usernam

Regards,
Khalid

 

[columb]

Just for interest, I found that keeping user lists in our sudoers files became a management headache so I ended up changing the permissions to groups
i.e. Before

User_Alias SUPPORT1 user1, user2, user3
SUPPORT1 host = command

After

%support1 host = command

and

lsgroup -a users support1
#support1 users=user1,user2,user3,

This means I can
[ol]
[li]Give users access permissions quickly and easily with chgrpmem[/li]
[li]Write reports for the security team on exactly whom has permissions to do what[/li]
[li]When a user leaves I don't have to delete them from a number of files[/li]
[/ol]

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Columb Healy