Home directory shell

Question

I am writing below script do create the home directory for the specific users and need to give ownership too.

Is the below the specified variable called userid will valid after home directory creation? gettig error when i run this script but home directory getting created but not chown

#!/bin/bash
#################### How to Check folder already exits or not #####################################################
read -p "Enter user id: " userid
if [ -d /tmp/$userid ]; then
echo -e "\e[31mFOLDER ALREADY EXISTS\e[0m"
else
mkdir /tmp/$userid
chown -R $userid:root $userid
fi

Answer 1

You need to replace the second instance of $userid with the directory name. So replace:

chown -R $userid:root $userid

with:

chown -R $userid:root /tmp/$userid