Re: [webmin-l] User account creation

[Danford, R. <ric...@lm...>]

Hi Jamie

Let's see if I can explain this better.  When creating a new user, Webmin
will create the home directory that you enter into this field, meaning the
"home directory" field.  How do I setup Webmin so that the input in the
"username" field is automatically placed at the end of the input entered
into the "home directory" field?

 

Example:

Username field = jdlow

Home Directory field = /usr/home

 

When "create" button is clicked or initiated, the home directory field is
auto appended to look like this /usr/home/jdlow.  Thus webmin will create
the new user account home directory as /usr/home/jdlow, without the manual
input of /usr/home/jdlow in the home directory field.

 

There was an incident where a user account was created with $HOME as
/usr/home and the 1130 user accounts in /usr/home were moved under the new
user account, because of a home directory manual input error.  I have added
the webmin log where the error occurred to help you better see what our
user account maintenance department did, and hopefully understand if it
would be possible to auto-append the username to the home directory.  We
are using a webmin user account create template.

 

The webmin log:

1156343136.18111.0 [23/Aug/2006 10:25:36] xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX useradmin save_user.cgi "create" "user" "smithd11"
copy_files='1' expired='' expirem='1' expirey='' gid='macfcusr' gidmode='0'
home='/usr/home/' home_base='0' inactive='180' makehome='1' max='64'
min='0' newgid='' others='0' othersh='' passmode='0' real='Daniel Smith,
68907' shell='/bin/csh' uid='532589' uid_def='0' user='smithd11' warn='10'

 

The individual in the Webmin log record above received an error from Webmin
stating "Unable to create home directory - already exist.

 

Then the individual in the User account maintenance department got
creative, as you can see by the log information below, and the ensuing
movehome=1 directive that was given to Webmin. 

 

1156343354.27211.0 [23/Aug/2006 10:29:14] xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX useradmin save_user.cgi "modify" "user" "smithd11"
chgid='1' chuid='1' expired='' expirem='1' expirey='' gid='macfcusr'
home='/usr/home/smithd11' home_base='0' inactive='180' max='64' min='0'
movehome='1' num='503' old='smithd11' others='0' othersh='' passmode='0'
real='Daniel Smith, 68907' shell='/bin/csh' uid='532589' user='smithd11'
warn='10'

 

And the other part of the new user account below from the webmin log.

 

1156343423.3569.0 [23/Aug/2006 10:30:23] xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  passwd save_passwd.cgi "passwd" "-" "smithd11" admchg='1'
change='0' expire='' gid='413' home='/usr/home/smithd11' inactive='180'
line='503' max='64' min='0' mod='useradmin' num='503' olduser='smithd11'
passmode='3' real='Daniel Smith, 68907' shell='/bin/csh' sline='503'
uid='532589' user='smithd11' warn='10'

 

Thanks,

Rich

 

 

Clayton R. Danford 
Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems 
Computing and Network Services 
UNIX Open Systems

 

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long
run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in
the short run determines the long run.  --Sydney J. Harris

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From: web...@li...
[mailto:web...@li...] On Behalf Of Jamie
Cameron
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 14:13
To: Webmin users list
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] User account creation

 

Hi,
I don't quite understand what you are trying to do here .. do you want to
put a file in the home directory of each new user that contains his UID? Or
something different?

 - Jamie

On 28/Aug/2006 09:36 Danford, Rich wrote .. 

Greetings,

How does one utilizing webmin 1.270 on Solaris 8 and 9 in the creation of a
user account home directory to have webmin automatically place the new user
account ID in the home directory path?

 

TIA

 

Rich

 

Clayton R. Danford 
Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems 
Computing and Network Services 
UNIX Open Systems

 

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long
run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in
the short run determines the long run.  --Sydney J. Harris