I have a file(test) It contains two columns and two lines
pippo mm pluto tt
I would like to create directory,owner and create password I do some think like that
while IFS= read a b; do
mkdir -p /srv/ftp/$a
chown -R ftp:ftp /srv/ftp/$a/
passwd $a $b
done < /test
I expect to have 2 directory pippo and pluto under /srv/ftp/ but i have only pippo
thanks for your help.
You 'll want IFS to be a space, it should be like this :
while IFS=" " read a b; do
mkdir -p /srv/ftp/$a
chown -R ftp:ftp /srv/ftp/$a/
passwd $a $b
done < /test
$b supposed to be?
test have blanks lines ?
passwd command's arguments. So $b make no sense. Your test file should have only 1 column - the username
You have a file containing two space separated fields, the username and the password:
pippo mm pluto tt
You can use a script like this to process the file, creating the user account and the corresponding directory:
ftpuid=$(getent passwd ftp | cut -d: -f3)
if test -z "$ftpuid"; then echo "No ftp account" >&2; exit 1; fi
while read -r user password
do
test -z "$user" && continue
echo "Creating account for $user, with home /srv/ftp/$user" >&2
useradd -d /srv/ftp/"$user" -M -N -g ftp -o -u "$ftpuid" "$user"
mkdir -m700 -p /srv/ftp/"$user"
chown "$ftpuid":ftp /srv/ftp/"$user"
test -n "$password" && ( echo "$password"; echo "$password" ) | passwd -q "$user" 2>/dev/null
done < file.txt
There are other options for settings passwords such as chpasswd, but I don't believe that this appropriate here.
testhave blanks lines?