[K12OSN] OT: Help with Template User Script

[Huck]

for USER in 'ls'  I presume just uses the generic 'ls' command...
you might need the   '-a'   flag to ensure it SEES 'all' 
directories/files...including the hidden ones.

--huck

R. Scott Belford wrote:
> In the interest of being able to make a template user whose settings can 
> be extracted to existing users, we have come up with a few scripts. 
> Things appear to work, however, the teacher reports that a some users' 
> permissions are not reset properly.  I wonder if any of you could advise 
> if this is a script syntax issue, or if we should be looking elsewhere 
> for the answer.  If nothing else, perhaps this is helpful for some 
> looking to do something similar.
> 
> respect
> 
> --scott
> 
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> #Make template user, tar, extract, change permissions
> 
> # settings
> BASE_HOME_DIR=/home/students
> TEMPLATE_FILE=/home/students/template/template.tar.gz
> BASE_TEMPLATE_DIR=/home/students/template
> 
> cd ${BASE_TEMPLATE_DIR}
> 
> tar -cvzf template.tar.gz * .[a-zA-Z0-9]*
> 
> cd ${BASE_HOME_DIR}
> for USER in `ls`
> do
>     echo 'Extracting for user:' ${USER}
>     cd ${BASE_HOME_DIR}/${USER}
>     tar -zxvf ${TEMPLATE_FILE}
>     chown -fR ${USER}:Domain\ Users * .[^.]*
> done
> 
> 
> and, because I have not conveniently determined a way to update 
> permissions and ownerships of hidden files within the user's directory 
> as well as well as of the users' directories themselves, I run this next
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # change permissions of users' directories
> 
> # settings
> BASE_HOME_DIR=/home/students
> 
> cd ${BASE_HOME_DIR}
> for USER in `ls`
> do
>     chown ${USER}:Domain\ Users ${USER}
> done
> 
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