[389-users] Enhanced useradd bash script for 389-ds

[Alan Orth]

All,

I've recently deployed 389 on our compute cluster, and I found the 
389-console to be frustrating and limiting in some ways[0].  One of the 
things I missed most was being able to add users *easily* from the 
command line.  I had a quick search around and found only one mention of 
a tool for this, an example shell script from the Red Hat Netgroup 
whitepaper[1] in 2008.

I've taken this script and modernized it a bit, including things like 
auto incrementing the user and group IDs based on the latest UID/GID in 
the directory.  The script is on my github account[2].

Hope someone else can take advantage of (and improve!) it.  Thanks!

[0]http://mjanja.co.ke/2013/06/useradd-bash-script-for-389-ldap/
[1] https://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/whitepapers/netgroupwhitepaper
[2] 
https://github.com/alanorth/hpc_infrastructure_scripts/blob/master/389/389_useradd.sh

-- 
Alan Orth
alan.orth at gmail.com
http://alaninkenya.org
http://mjanja.co.ke
"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++

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