Need help with copy and ownwership script

[Planker]

I am looking for a script that i can copy a file a file to all 200 of my user's home dir. the ownership also needs to be modified to the user.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

And what have you tried so far ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Planker]

I have not tried anything yet, I just found that for some reason when users are created, it is not creating the .profile in the users home dir and we just had a software upgrade installed that now requires the .profile to be in the home dir. I am very new to SCO and since this is a production environment I do not want to do anything to mess up the system. I have found two scripts that looks like they could be modified to work.


#!/bin/tcsh

foreach u ( /home/user /home/user1 /home/user2 /home/user3 )
foreach f ( /full/path/to/file /full/path/to/anotherfile )
echo $u
cp $f ${u}:$f
end
end

or

# /etc/passwd /usr/private/admin/passwd

Copy the password to a secure (700) area owned by root.

# vi /usr/private/admin/passwd

root:NqM5kgsU0o./6:0:0:root:/root:/bin/tcsh
bin:*:1:1:bin:/bin:
daemon:*:2:2:daemon:/sbin:
adm:*:3:4:adm:/var/adm:
lp:*:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:
sync:*:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:*:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
postmaster:*:14:12ostmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/bash
nobody:*:65534:100:nobody:/dev/null:
ftp:*:404:1::/home/ftp:/bin/bash
guest:*:405:100:guest:/dev/null:/dev/null

Strip out all the system-related accounts that are not physical users.

# vi cphome

#! /bin/sh
cat /usr/private/admin/passwd | while read line
do
USER=`echo $line | awk -F":" '{print $1}'`
DIR=`echo $line | awk -F":" '{print $6}'`
cp $1 $DIR
chown $USER $DIR/$1
chmod 750 $DIR/$1
done

 

[motoslide]

I believe you will need to create a text file containing all the usernames. Use this text file to feed your script.
This is how I'd do this, your situation may differ:

# cd /usr
# ls >ulist
(Now edit "ulist" to remove non-login names (such as "spool", "include", etc.) This is the hard part.

Create your sample .profile script, name it /tmp/profile.
Run these commands:
# cd /usr
# for i in `cat ulist`
# do
cp /tmp/profile /usr/$i/.profile
chown $i /usr/$i/.profile
chmod 600 /usr/$i/.profile
done
#
You can always test the script first by just including a single userid in the /usr/ulist file.
To fix your REAL issue (no .profile), take a look in the /usr/lib/mkuser/sh directory. This is the source location for the default $HOME directory stuff.


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