added support for extended groups

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/add-user b/add-user
index 0a44fc8..74b8c8e 100755
--- a/add-user
+++ b/add-user
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 #		    system user.
 #---------------------------------------------------------------
 
-if [ $# != 5 ]; then
-    echo "usage: $0 <pkg name> <num installed> <user name> <home dir> <shell>" 1>&2
+if [ $# -lt 5 ]; then
+    echo "usage: $0 <pkg name> <num installed> <user name> <home dir> <shell> [<group1> <group2>...]" 1>&2
     exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -20,7 +20,18 @@ num=$2				# number of packages installed
 name=$3				# name of the user
 dir=$4				# home directory
 shell=$5			# shell
+shift 5
 
-/usr/sbin/useradd -r -M -s $shell -d $dir -c "system user for $pkg" $name > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
+if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
+    garg="-G $1"
+    /usr/sbin/groupadd -r $1 > /dev/null 2>&1
+    shift
+    for g in $*; do
+	garg="$garg,$g"
+	
+    done
+fi
+
+/usr/sbin/useradd -r -M -s $shell -d $dir -c "system user for $pkg" $garg $name > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
 
 # add-user ends here