I am trying to append a variable from an adduser script to a line in a config file (for samba).<div><br></div><div><div>Can someone assist me here?</div><div><br></div><div>The function is in BOLD below:  <b>createNewSambaAllow()</b></div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div>It&#39;s not working to put the new line in the smb.conf file?  </div>
<div><br></div><div>Cry!  Beg!  Plead!</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Note:  This is a assuming I already have a user named &quot;unique&quot; in my smb.conf line.</div>
<div><br></div><div>#####################################start script#######################################3</div><div><div>#!/bin/bash</div><div><br></div><div><div># Add shell and samba user.</div><div><br></div><div>
_now=$(date +&quot;%m_%d_%Y&quot;)</div>
<div>basedir=/home</div><div>usershell=/bin/bash</div><div><br></div><div>## Declare all the functions first</div><div><br></div><div>## function to check if user already exists on system</div><div>ifUserExits(){</div><div>

        grep $1 /etc/passwd &gt; /dev/null</div><div>        [ $? -eq 0 ] &amp;&amp; return $TRUE || return $FALSE</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>## function to create the user with default shell and home directory passed from below</div>

<div>createNewUser(){</div><div>        if /usr/sbin/useradd &quot;$@&quot;</div><div>        then echo &quot;User $6 Added&quot;</div><div>        fi</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>## function to set the user password</div>

<div>createPassword(){</div><div>        if echo -e &quot;$1\n$1\n&quot; | echo $1:$2 |chpasswd</div><div>        then echo &quot;Password Created for User $2&quot;</div><div>        fi</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>

## function to setup samba user</div><div>createNewSambaUser(){</div><div>        if (echo $1; echo $1) | /usr/bin/smbpasswd -as $2</div><div>        then echo &quot;Samba Account for User $2 Added&quot;</div><div>        fi</div>

<div>}</div></div><div><br></div>
<div><b>#####This is the part I have issues with:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>## function to add user to the Samba config and restart daemon</b></div><div><b>createNewSambaAllow(){</b></div><div><b>        # Copy to backup the config:</b></div>

<div><b>
        cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf-$_now</b></div><div><b>        # stuff the line we need to append to into a variable called $oldline</b></div><div><b>        # this is supposed to look like this &quot;valid users = unique thing1 thing2 thing3 alice&quot;</b></div>


<div><b>        oldline = grep unique /etc/samba/smb.conf</b></div><div><b>        # delete the old line in the smb.conf</b></div><div><b>        sed &#39;/unique/d&#39; /etc/samba/smb.conf &gt;&gt;/etc/samba/smb.conf</b></div>

<div><b>        # dump the old line and the new user into the bottom of smb.conf</b></div>
<div><b>        echo $oldline &amp;&amp; echo $username  &gt;&gt; /etc/samba/smb.conf</b></div><div><b>        # restart samba</b></div><div><b>      /etc/init.d/samba restart</b></div><div><b>        echo &quot;Samba Config Added and Daemon restarted&quot;</b></div>

<div><b>}</b></div><div><br>
</div><div>### This is just for your info #####</div><div><br></div><div>## make sure root is running script</div><div>if [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]</div><div>
then</div><div>    echo &quot;You must be root or use sudo to run this script!&quot;</div><div>    exit 2</div><div>fi</div><div><br></div><div>## get username from input</div><div>read -p &quot;Enter username : &quot; username</div>



<div><br></div><div>## if user doesn&#39;t exist, add user</div><div>if ( ! ifUserExits $username )</div><div><br></div><div>then</div><div>        ## get password from input</div><div>        read -p &quot;Enter password : &quot; password</div>



<div>        createNewUser -m -b $basedir -s $usershell $username</div><div>        createPassword $password $username</div><div>        createNewSambaUser $password $username</div><div>        createNewSambaAllow $username</div>



<div>else</div><div>       ## oops, username already being used</div><div>        echo &quot;Username \&quot;$username\&quot; already exists&quot;</div><div>       exit 3</div><div>fi</div><div><br></div><div># End Bash Example</div>

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