Hello
I am trying to create a perl script to add users to a unix front end.
Please ignore the glaring security problems for now.
Here is what I have:
#!/usr/bin/perl                                                       
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use Unix::PasswdFile;                                                 
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($sec,$min,$hour,$dy)=localtime(time);                                
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$stamp=".".$hour.$min.$sec;                                           
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$pw = new Unix::PasswdFile, "/etc/passwd";                       
  $pw->user("joeblow",  $pw->maxuid + 1, 10,"Joe Blow", "/export/home/
+joeblow",
            "/bin/ksh");                                              
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  $pw->delete("deadguy");                                             
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  $pw->passwd("johndoe", $pw->encpass("newpass"));                    
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  foreach $user ($pw->users) {                                        
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      print "Username: $user, Full Name: ", $pw->gecos($user), "\n";  
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  }                                                                   
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  $pw->commit(backup => 'bak');                                       
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  $pw->commit(backup=>$stamp);                                        
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  undef $pw;

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Looks like a copy of the synopsis huh?
Anyhoo - I installed the library with the make command
But still get this:

Can't call method "maxuid" without a package or object reference at adduser.pl l ine 8.


AND
Any suggestions on how to write a script like this? Validations? Share a script? Thanks


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In reply to Passwdfile.pm help? by vivekvp

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