Contact Email - Batch Update/Change

[GeekPatrolMille]

Can anyone direct me to where the contact email address for a domain account is stored. I am speaking of the email address that appears on the Main >> Account Information >> List Accounts screen.

I have a reseller who did not provid a contact email address for his clients and he has requested me to put a default email address on all of the accounts.

Thank you in advance...

[chirpy]

The email address is stored in /home/*/.contactemail for each account. You would have to write a script that populated that file with an email address for the list of accounts where it is needed.

[GeekPatrolMille]

Who would have thought of looking in the most obvious place... <grin>

Thanks chirpy...

[sawbuck]

Along the same lines, have found the attached script handy to extract all contactemail addresses.

[GeekPatrolMille]

Thanks sawbuck...

Here is my modified version of your offerings. This script will insert the email address provided into any /home/<ACCTNAME>/.contactemail file which is currently missing one. It does not overwrite the email address if it exists. It does not test for valid existing or invalid existing emails so be very cautious...

My original request was to fix this for a reseller... Since only the reseller in question had missing contact emails, I did not do any lookups for the reseller account. This script will touch *ALL* empty .contactemail files. It will not create the file if it is missing, so system accounts should be safe. Use at your own risk...

-greg


#!/bin/bash

myEmail = "email@address.com

for i in `awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd`
do
if [[ -e '/home/'$i'/.contactemail' ]]; then
email="cat /home/$i/.contactemail"
em=`$email`
if [[ -n $em ]]; then
echo $em
else
echo $myEmail > '/home/'$i'/.contactemail'
fi
fi
done