From: jonoterc <jon_obuchowski@terc.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:23:57 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: adding a shell script for checking whether a samba account exists for a given user
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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
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diff --git a/templates/check_samba_user b/templates/check_samba_user
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75cb4b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/check_samba_user
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/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