From dc262e3f39ec41576a586332b01e183b5583d3a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Volker Lendecke <vlendec@samba.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:47:02 +0000
Subject: An example of a group creation command that can handle failures of
 groupadd.

Volker
(This used to be commit 3f78923a6feefffae6203d27a765b2a8cf3c5c24)
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 source3/script/creategroup | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 source3/script/creategroup

(limited to 'source3')

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
-- 
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