[SOLVED] sed help to run sed command against multiple different file names

bkone · 04-16-2012, 11:00 AM

I am not sure if there is an easier way to do this but probably. I have several 25+ servers in which we had connected to AD using Samba and Winbind. On the servers that we no longer use Samba on the Samba packages were removed. I am trying to comment out the line that contained pam.winbind.so in the following files:
/etc/pam.d/common-auth
/etc/pam.d/common-account
/etc/pam.d/common-password
/etc/pam.d/common-session

I am running SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. I thought I could throw these lines in a bash script but they don't all run.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sed -i '/auth   required        pam_winbind.so/,/<\/auth/s/^/#/' /etc/pam.d/common-auth
sed -i '/session   required        pam_winbind.so/,/<\/session/s/^/#/' /etc/pam.d/common-session
sed -i '/account   required        pam_winbind.so/,/<\/account/s/^/#/' /etc/pam.d/common-account
sed -i '/password   required        pam_winbind.so/,/<\/password/s/^/#/' /etc/pam.d/common-password

Just the first line works. I was trying to just comment out the line but now I am up to deleting them or whatever is easier and faster.

Any suggestions from the pros?

grail · 04-16-2012, 11:55 AM

I have 2 questions:

1. pam_winbind.so - does this string only appear on the lines to be commented out?

2. Are all the files being changed the only ones in the directory starting with the string 'common'?

If the answer is yes to both, I would use:

Code:

sed -i '/pam_winbind.so/s/^/#/' /etc/pam.d/common-*

bkone · 04-16-2012, 12:27 PM

Brillant!

Thanks grail.