• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• BUGS
• DOWNLOAD
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

NAME

egrid-mkhomes - Front-end to egrid-mkdirhier for creating user homes

SYNOPSIS

egrid-mkhomes [OPTIONS] --dir DIR USERNAME [USERNAME ...]

egrid-mkhomes [OPTIONS] --dir DIR --passwd FILE [FILE ...]

Creates home directories for specified users. By default, assume options --create and --remove.

Options:

-A, --args-from FILE

Read additional command-line arguments from FILE as if they were typed on the command-line.

--passwd

Non-options arguments are files in /etc/passwd format from which user names are read; ignore all users whose home directory is not a subdirectory of DIR, create homes for the remaining ones.

--relocate DIR2

When used in conjunction with --passwd, make home directories as subdirectories of DIR2.

--create

Create home directories which do not exist;

--remove

Remove directories whose name does not match any of the specified users.

--nocreate

Do not create any directory.

--noremove

Do not remove any directory.

--ignore SUBDIR

Do not remove subdirectory SUBDIR of DIR. May be given multiple times, with cumulative effect.

--fast

If a directory already exists, which should be created, assume it is correctly set-up and do not invoke egrid-mkdirhier on it.

--print

Print shell commands instead of executing them.

--help

Print help text and exit

-V, --version

Print version number and exit

DESCRIPTION

Invokes egrid-mkdirhier to create homes for all users specified on the command line; invokes rm -rf to remove subdirectories for DIR which are not home directories for a user specified on the command line or via passwd-style files.

N.B.: The command egrid-mkdirhier must be on the system PATH; egrid-mkhomes only acts as a front-end!

BUGS

The map between user names and directory names is the trivial one; there is no way to specify a more complex map.

The --verbose option does not yet report very much information.

This man page is not very clear, nor accurate.

DOWNLOAD

You can download RPM packages of the EGRID SE Tools from http://www.egrid.it/download/rpm/RPMS.egrid; Debian packages from http://www.egrid.it/download/deb/egrid.

You can browse the source code for this software from the EGRID CVS at http://www.egrid.it/cvs/middleware/se/

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2004,2005 Riccardo Murri riccardo.murri@ictp.it for the EGRID project http://www.egrid.it/

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.