[Ihook-discuss] mkdir as network user

[Louis M. <lo...@mo...>]

Hi List,

I'm using iHook 1.1.1 on 10.5.4 to run our in-house login script from  
tiger which does a whole bunch of things which i won't go into here.   
One of things I'm trying to do is create a directory in the NFS home  
of the user currently logging in.  To achieve this we call the login  
hook from within itself using 'su $1 -c "$loginScriptPath -u $1"' (the  
-u is used purely for checking if we are running as root or the user)  
then once we are running as the user i try and run the following command

mkdir -p ~/tmp/temporaryitems

This will sometime not work at all, sometime will create ~/tmp but not  
temporaryitems and sometime will work fine with no apparent rhyme or  
reason.

i've also tried

mkdir -p /usr/people/$2/tmp/temporaryitems  (where $2 is the user name  
passed from the command above.)

with similarly unpredictable results.

can anyone see anything fundamentally wrong with what we are trying to  
do, or know of any leopard related issues with this?

Cheers

Louis Mustill - Mac Support
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