RE: [cobalt-users] Notify of New Users-RAQ XTR

["Edward R. Milstein" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Why not maintain two copies of your /etc/passwd file, and have a cron
> script regularly perform a diff on the two?

This presumes one has a tmp directory under admin and this is run from
admin.

Need to add the crontab of course..

#!/bin/csh -f
# set echo
# set verbose
#
# Keep track of new users added to the /etc/passwd file
#
# Set some globals
set PASSWD = /etc/passwd
set TMPFILE = /tmp/$0.$$
set PASSWDBACKUP = ~/tmp/passwd.diffcopy
#
# Create a backup copy if it doesn't exist already
#
if ( ! -f $PASSWDBACKUP ) then
        cp $PASSWD $PASSWDBACKUP
endif
#
# Diff the two versions to see if there are any adds
#
diff $PASSWD $PASSWDBACKUP > $TMPFILE
#
# If the size of the diff is greater than 0
#
if ( -s $TMPFILE ) then
        mail -s $0 $USER < $TMPFILE
endif
#
# Clean up
#
rm $TMPFILE