Bash shell login script

[chicagorush]

Can anyone help me with a bash shell login script? Its for my unix class and we need to make a script that allows the users we create to login on a screen and put their user name and password on it. Then from that screen it goes to a menu screen IF they put the right login/password combination.

Heres what i have so far.

tput cup $1 $2
tput clear
bold=`tput smso`
offbold=`tput rmso`
echo $bold
tput cup 10 20; echo "User ID:"
tput cup 12 20; echo "Password:"
echo $offbold
tput cup 10 41; read userid
tput cup 12 41; read password
while [ "$userid" != "/etc/passwd" ]; do
	echo $bold
	tput cup 15 35; echo "Incorrect User/Password"
	echo $offbold
     if	[ "$userid" = "/etc/passwd" ];
	then
	clear
	./companymenu; 
     fi
done

But none of it seems to work.

I'm stumped on what to do about letting it read a file with the users and password on it. Please help me.

[wje_lf]

You can use bash's read command to read a line from standard input. Put it in a loop. Then, for that loop, redirect input from the file you want to read.

For more information on the read command, enter the following at the command line:

help read

Hope this helps.