On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:41:22AM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Function _require_user() does check if a user exists *and* if it is able
> to execute commands. Add a new function to simply check if a user exists.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> common/rc | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> index 154bc2dd7e94..c7e77c0e26dc 100644
> --- a/common/rc
> +++ b/common/rc
> @@ -2289,18 +2289,27 @@ _cat_group()
> cat /etc/group
> }
>
> -# check for a user on the machine, fsgqa as default
> +# check if a user exists in the system
> +#
> +_require_user_exists()
> +{
> + user=$1
> + _cat_passwd | grep -q $user
> + [ "$?" == "0" ] || _notrun "$user user not defined."
> +}
Please make "user" a local variable so that it doesn't overwrite another
variable with the same name.
- Eric
