On Wednesday 07 July 2004 17:29, j.travis wrote: > I would like to create a specialized subdirectory whenever useradd is > invoked. More specifically: > > for a user: user1 > with a home directory: /home/share > > I would like to automatically create: > > /home/share/.user1-mail/ > > when I issue: > > useradd -d /home/share user1 > > I have been looking through the files in /etc/profile /etc/skel /etc/bashrc > and whatnot but haven't found the right spot yet. Any ideas? have you considered simply writing a shell script to do this for you? e.g. (off the top of my head, so apologies for clumsiness) e.g /root/bin/users.sh # --begin--# #!/bin/bash for user in $* do useradd -d /home/share $user install -o $user -g (users primary group) -d /home/share/.$user-mail done # -- end and call it with users.sh user1 user2 user3 user4 (etc etc) if you don't like the install command, you can always replace it with mkdir and chown I assume your setup means that all your users share the same primary group? Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
