On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 11:50, Dana Holland wrote: > I've written a shell script which will create a new user, then create a > .forward and .vacation.msg file in the new user's home directory. > Within this script, I'm trying to automate the initialization of the > vacation program - that's where I'm running into problems. I've tried it > two ways. > > 1. su $oldid > vacation -I > exit > > 2. su $oldid -c'/usr/bin/vacation -I' > > Neither works. I receive the following error message: > > bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied > > I've tried running the second option above at the command line and get > the same error message. Doing the first option at the command line > works. Any hints on how I can get this to work? I've got to do this > for almost 400 users (we're changing email addresses here). > > One other related question - I read in a man page that if you don't > explicitly set a password after issuing the useradd command, then that > account isn't enabled for logging in. Is that correct? I've tested it > and it seems to be true, but I wanted to verify that. I don't want > these users to be able to log in to their old email accounts. > -- > ************************************************************ > Dana Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] 903-875-7355 > Navarro College Corsicana, TX > http://www.navarrocollege.edu/staff_pages/dana/dana.html > ************************************************************ > All opinions stated are my own, and probably don't even > vaguely resemble those of Navarro College. :)
Did you just add the .forward and vacation.msg files to the /etc/skel directory? Maybe I'm not seeing the full picture here.... -- Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warp Drive Networks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
