Breaking the barrier of a broken paradigm... part 1

[Ryan Ginstrom]

> On Behalf Of john s.
> import os, sys, string, copy, getopt, linecache
> from traceback import format_exception
> 
> #The file we read in...
> fileHandle = "/etc/passwd"
> srcFile = open(fileHandle,'r')
> srcList = srcFile.readlines()
> 
> #yah, a for loop that "iterates" through the file of "lines"
> for i in srcList:
>     strUsr = string.split(i,":")
>     theUsr = strUsr[0]
>     usrHome = "/expirt/home/",theUsr,"/"
>     usrHome = ''.join(usrHome)

How about for starters:

import os

for line in open("/etc/passwd"):
    user, _pwd = line.split(":")
    user_home = os.path.join("/expirt/home", user)

>         try:
>             os.makedirs('usrHome' )
>         except Exception, e:
>             print e

    if os.path.exists(user_home):
        print "User Home dir exists, checking and fixing permissions." 
    else:
        print "Do other stuff"

Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom