Execute command doesn't work on "sudo"

[satimis]

Hi all,

I was following

Postfix Virtual MailBox Clam Smtp Howto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixVirtualMailBoxClamSmtpHowto?action=recall&rev=82

building an mail server, creating /usr/local/sbin/deldovcotuser to delete users.

However it can only work as root. On running;

$ sudo deldovecotuser user@mydomain.com

read: 18: Illegal option -n

Aborting....


it complains.

$ cat /usr/local/sbin/deldovecotuser

#!/bin/bash
#
# deldovecotuser - for deleting virtual dovecot users
#
if [ ! $# = 1 ]
then
echo -e "Usage: $0 username@domain"
exit 1
else
user=`echo "$1" | cut -f1 -d "@"`
domain=`echo "$1" | cut -s -f2 -d "@"`
if [ -x $domain ]
then
echo -e "No domain given\nUsage: $0 username@domain: "
exit 2
fi
fi
read -n 1 -p "Delete user $user@$domain from dovecot? [Y/N]? "
echo
case $REPLY in
y | Y)
new_users=`grep -v $user@$domain /etc/dovecot/users`
new_passwd=`grep -v $user@$domain /etc/dovecot/passwd`
new_vmaps=`grep -v $user@$domain /etc/postfix/vmaps`
echo "Deleting $user@$domain from /etc/dovecot/users"
echo "$new_users" > /etc/dovecot/users
echo "Deleting $user@$domain from /etc/dovecot/passwd"
echo "$new_passwd" > /etc/dovecot/passwd
echo "Deleting $user@$domain from /etc/postfix/vmaps"
echo "$new_vmaps" > /etc/postfix/vmaps
postmap /etc/postfix/vmaps
postfix reload
read -n1 -p "Delete all files in /home/vmail/$domain/$user? [Y/N]? " DELETE
echo
case $DELETE in
y | Y)
echo "Deleting files in /home/vmail/$domain/$user"
rm -fr /home/vmail/$domain/$user
;;
* )
echo "Not deleting files in /home/vmail/$domain/$user"
;;
esac
;;
* )
echo "Aborting..."
;;
esac


adddovecotuser works on sudo.


$ ls -ld /usr/local/sbin/deldovecotuser

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1256 Mar 5 17:13 /usr/local/sbin/deldovecotuser


$ ls -ld /usr/local/sbin/adddovecotuser

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1678 Mar 5 16:52 /usr/local/sbin/adddovecotuser


Google didn't find me a solution. Please help. TIA

B.R.
satimis

[hawkmage]

Doing a cut and paste of your code and removing the commands to do the actual removal of accounts and files I am not having an issues running your script using sudo.

If you run the command:

cat -vet /usr/local/sbin/deldovecotuser
Are there escaped chars on the first read command on line 18?

[satimis]

Doing a cut and paste of your code and removing the commands to do the actual removal of accounts and files I am not having an issues running your script using sudo.

If you run the command:

cat -vet /usr/local/sbin/deldovecotuser
Are there escaped chars on the first read command on line 18?

Just performed;
$ cat -vet /usr/local/sbin/deldovecotuser > deldovecotuser.txt

on deldovecotuser.txt;
line 18

read -n 1 -p "Delete user $user@$domain from dovecot? [Y/N]? "$


B.R.
satimis

[satimis]

Hi all,

Problem solved as follow:-

on /user/local/sbin/deldovecotuser

line 18:-

read -n 1 -p "Delete user $user@$domain from dovecot? [Y/N]? "


it left out ":" (semcolon) after "?"

After adding it "sudo deladvecotuser" works without problem. But I don't understand why root works even without ":" after "?"

satimis