Script to edit /etc/aliases file

Script to edit /etc/aliases file

[David Tice]

We add new users through a script that  sets up home directories on 
different machines. If they are a student they on one machine if they are 
faculty they are on different and so on. Our mail comes into one machine 
and then sent to where their home directory lives. ( I did not set it up 
this way but I have to deal with it)  I need to set up aliases for everyone
 who is new and I am doing it by hand.
Does anyone have a script that I can use?

TIA 

David Tice
System Administrator
Wheaton College
508.286.3406
dtice@wheatonma.edu

Re: Script to edit /etc/aliases file

[Matthew Harrison]

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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:55:25AM -0400, David Tice wrote:
> We add new users through a script that  sets up home directories on 
> different machines. If they are a student they on one machine if they are 
> faculty they are on different and so on. Our mail comes into one machine 
> and then sent to where their home directory lives. ( I did not set it up 
> this way but I have to deal with it)  I need to set up aliases for everyone
>  who is new and I am doing it by hand.
> Does anyone have a script that I can use?

Hi David,
  A little while ago, I wrote some perl scripts that take a text file
with usernames like so:

<user file>
user1
user2
user3
</user file>

then creates the unix account, sets a default password, sets up the
sendmail virtusertable, and a few other things. You should be able to
use it to create the aliases file instead of the virtusertable without
much trouble.

I will send it over when I get home (I'm at work now), in a couple of
hours.

HTH

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Mat Harrison			| email: matth@3d-computers.co.uk
3d Computer Systems Ltd.	| tel: ++441249 460 766
11 New Road			| fax: ++441249 460 583 
Chippenham			| gpgid: 0x9FE38627
Wiltshire
SN13 9RW
England

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Re: Script to edit /etc/aliases file

[Horia Chirculescu]

Which are the few 'other' things that your script do?

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Matthew Harrison wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:55:25AM -0400, David Tice wrote:
> > We add new users through a script that  sets up home directories on 
> > different machines. If they are a student they on one machine if they are 
> > faculty they are on different and so on. Our mail comes into one machine 
> > and then sent to where their home directory lives. ( I did not set it up 
> > this way but I have to deal with it)  I need to set up aliases for everyone
> >  who is new and I am doing it by hand.
> > Does anyone have a script that I can use?
> 
> Hi David,
>   A little while ago, I wrote some perl scripts that take a text file
> with usernames like so:
> 
> <user file>
> user1
> user2
> user3
> </user file>
> 
> then creates the unix account, sets a default password, sets up the
> sendmail virtusertable, and a few other things. You should be able to
> use it to create the aliases file instead of the virtusertable without
> much trouble.
> 
> I will send it over when I get home (I'm at work now), in a couple of
> hours.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -- 
> Mat Harrison			| email: matth@3d-computers.co.uk
> 3d Computer Systems Ltd.	| tel: ++441249 460 766
> 11 New Road			| fax: ++441249 460 583 
> Chippenham			| gpgid: 0x9FE38627
> Wiltshire
> SN13 9RW
> England
> 

Re: Script to edit /etc/aliases file

[Scott Taylor]

At 07:55 AM 10/22/2003, David Tice wrote:
>We add new users through a script that  sets up home directories on
>different machines. If they are a student they on one machine if they are
>faculty they are on different and so on. Our mail comes into one machine
>and then sent to where their home directory lives. ( I did not set it up
>this way but I have to deal with it)  I need to set up aliases for everyone
>  who is new and I am doing it by hand.
>Does anyone have a script that I can use?

just add the line to your current (bash/sh?) script.

echo -e "$NewUserName:\t$NewUserName@$NewUserMachine" >> /etc/aliases

Of course you probably have some other varables to represent $NewUserName 
and $NewUserMachine.  Then just run "newaliases"