[tjay83]

Hi

I am looking for script to modify /etc/shadow.

For example:
1-)User enters username
2-)The line of that user is found in /etc/shadow and *LK* is added infront of the second field in /etc/shadow.

How can I do this?

Thanks

[eggi]

Hey There,

This is answered in one other post, also, just use the second version and set the username variable in your shell script:

but, of course, be careful

$username=user123
awk -F":" -v user="$username" '{ if ( $0 ~ /user/ ) print $1 ":*LK*" $2 ":" $3 ":" $4 ":" $5 ":" $6 ":" $7 ":" $8 ":" $9}' /etc/shadow

to get user123 using the -v switch to set the username variable in the shell and transmute it to the awk variable "user"

Hope that helps

, Mike

[tjay83]

thanks eggy

[eggi]

No problem. Happy to help

Seriously, though - be careful. One mistake and it could mean disaster. Actually, just back up the old one and you should be good (So simple it always evades me until the last second

, Mike