adding a shell script for checking whether a samba account exists for a given user

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

diff --git a/templates/check_samba_user b/templates/check_samba_user
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/check_samba_user
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script checks to see if a given user account exists on samba
+# if so, it returns 0
+# otherwise it returns 1
+
+sudo /usr/bin/pdbedit -L | egrep -q "^$1:"
+exists=$?
+
+if [ $exists = 0 ]; then
+       echo "'$1' is a samba user"     
+else
+       echo "no samba account matching '$1'"
+fi
+
+exit $exists