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diff --git a/source3/script/creategroup b/source3/script/creategroup new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..01fb065944 --- /dev/null +++ b/source3/script/creategroup @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +# Example script for 'add group command'. Handle weird NT group +# names. First attempt to create the group directly, if that fails +# then create a random group and print the numeric group id. +# +# Note that this is only an example and assumes /dev/urandom. +# +# Volker + +GROUPNAME="$1" +ITERS=0 + +while ! /usr/sbin/groupadd "$GROUPNAME" > /dev/null 2>&1 +do + # we had difficulties creating that group. Maybe the name was + # too weird, or it already existed. Create a random name. + GROUPNAME=nt-$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=16 count=1 2>/dev/null | md5sum | cut -b 1-5) + ITERS=$(expr "$ITERS" + 1) + if [ "$ITERS" -gt 10 ] + then + # Too many attempts + exit 1 + fi +done + +getent group | grep ^"$GROUPNAME": | cut -d : -f 3 |