adding shell script for creating a new smb account

will be leveraged by a puppet class; only tested against Ubuntu 12.04

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/templates/add_samba_user b/templates/add_samba_user
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script adds a samba account for a given user and password
+# call as:
+# > add_samba_user "USERNAME" "PASSWORD"
+
+/bin/echo -e "$2\n$2\n" | sudo /usr/bin/pdbedit -a "$1" -t 1>/dev/null
+results=$?
+
+if [ $results = 0 ]; then
+	echo "added samba account for '$1'"	
+else
+	echo "could not add samba account for '$1'"
+fi
+
+exit $results