Hi Phil, I sent you some mail but it keeps bouncing back - hope nobody minds if I post it to the list.... #################### thanks Phil - another top answer.... ...did I ask you already if you wanted a job? Good pay, based in Nottinghill - a good team of IT people doing some really cool stuff with kids... Let me know if your interested.... I had a good look through your Createusers scripts and was wondering how difficult it would be to adapt those scripts to building the directories and links you have outlined below? I guess sooner or later I will have to get my hands dirty and start learning how to do this kind of thing... How did you start? Know any good places to go to where I can learn about this kind of stuff - this is shell scripting right? I've heard perl is really useful but I have no real programming background.... I'm having a few problems with using Createusers on my Redhat 6.2 box. I wonder if you could help as I'm desperate to transfer the hundreds of accounts over to this machine.....
The shell scripts create the user accounts with the following error line:
/usr/sbin/createusers: /usr/sbin/autopasswd: No Such File or Directory
the accounts work fine - but only if I change the passwords. Any ideas?
thanks again, Russell
---------- From: Phil Jones Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:24 AM To: XXX@XXXXXXXXX.XXX Subject: Re: Getting rid of the tilde
Hi Russell
You need to create user directories under the Apache document root and set the permissions of the directories so that each user can write to their own directory but only read others. Then set up a symlink in each user's home directory pointing to their personal directory under the Apache document root. The command for making symlinks is ln.
Eg, these commands as root will set up for a user called user1 in the users group.
# make directory in Apache document root for user1. The Apache document root # varies according to the Linux distribution. On Red Hat 7.0, the document # root is /var/www/html. mkdir /var/www/html/user1
# set owner of new directory chown user1.users /var/www/html/user1
# set permissions of new directory, 744 = owner read, write, execute, # all others read only chmod 744 /var/www/html/user1
# create symbolic link: myweb in user's home to point to user's directory under # Apache document root ln -s /var/www/html/user1 /home/user1/myweb
As an alternative, try installing Web User Interface. It scans the system looking for personal home pages and builds an index. Then your young ones don't have to type the URL containing the ~ character at all - instead, they can just click the link. Web User Interface is free software available at http://www.lfsp.org. The advantage of this option is you don't have to change the configuration of your system.
Wishes, Phil