#!/bin/sh #The function will find the given user and search for a mysql-password #in the home-directory, which will get printed out! #arg1: user where to find a config-file # if not given, it uses the current user in the $HOME and $USER-Variable function mysqlpw() { local H=$HOME local U=$USER # use different user, if arg1 given if [ ! -z $1 ]; then # check if given user is even existing if ! id $1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then echo user $1 not existing >&2 return 1 fi U=$1 H=`grep ^$1: /etc/passwd | cut -d ":" -f 6` fi; local mysql_cnf="$H/.my.cnf" if [ ! -e $mysql_cnf ]; then echo $mysql_cnf not existing >&2 && return 1 fi if [ ! -r $mysql_cnf ]; then echo $mysql_cnf not readable >&2 && return 1 fi local PW=`(grep "password=" $mysql_cnf || echo undefined) | cut -d "=" -f 2` echo MySQL-Password for user $U is $PW }