[Sheflug] addstudent

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Hi All

This is my addstudent script changed the location of smbpasswd 
to /etc/samba/smbpasswd that is may be used with Webmin

cheers

fred

#! /bin/bash

# /sbin/addstudent 
# 
# Create a new student account invoke like: 
#     addstudent [name] [password] 

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin 
NAME=$1 
PASSWD=${2:-student} 
# Define error message 
usage () 
{ 
    echo " " 
    echo "Usage: addstudent [name] [password]" 
    echo "       If password is not specified" 
    echo "       it defaults to \"student\"" 
    echo " " 
}

# Test for username
if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then 
    usage 
    exit 1 
fi 

# User exists? 
if id $NAME > /dev/null 2>&1; then 
    echo " " 
    echo "User exists!" 
    echo " " 
    exit 1 
fi 

# Run the real useradd command 
if useradd -d /home/students/$NAME -g students -p `echo "print crypt
('$PASSWD', 'RH');" | perl` $NAME; then
    # Adding user to /etc/samba/smbpasswd 
    echo "$PASSWD" > /etc/samba/smbpwd 
    echo "$PASSWD" >> /etc/samba/smbpwd 
    smbpasswd -s -a $NAME < /etc/samba/smbpwd 
    rm -f /etc/samba/smbpwd
    echo " " 
    echo "Success!" 
    echo "Added the user: $NAME" 
    echo "With password:  $PASSWD" 
    echo " " 
    # Set permissons for the home directory 
    chmod -R 2770 /home/students/$NAME 
    chown -R `id -u $NAME`.teachers /home/students/$NAME 
    # Set quotas 
    edquota -p quotastudent $NAME
else 
   echo " " 
   echo "Oops, something went wrong!" 
   echo " " 
fi
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