Create a User Acc Using Bash Script in Linux

These two scripts are very important for the system admin who regularly works with mail servers and somehow forgets to backup his system username and password! Let’s say somehow we lost the usernames and passwords of the mail server. In this case the admin has to manually create all the users and then change the passwords for all the users. Tedious job. Let’s make our life easier.

 Before we jump in , For those who dont who kno what Bash file and how to create that ? click the link for refrence  Bash Guide

First create a file which contains all the user name. Something like this:

INFILTRATOR
SUREN GREY HAT
WILL MATHEWS
jOSHUSA
pHIL 

Risab Dang 

Save the file as userlist.txt. Now create the following bash file:

#!/bin/sh
for i in `more userlist.txt `
do
echo $i
adduser $i
done

Save the file and exit.

chmod 755 userlist.txt

ow run the file:

./userlist.txt

This will add all the users to the system. Now we have to change the passwords. Let's say we want username123 as password. So for user SUREN GREY HAT the password will be suren123, rubi123 for user rubi and so on.


Create another bash file as follows:

#!/bin/sh
for i in `more userlist.txt `
do
echo $i
echo $i"123" | passwd –-stdin "$i"
echo; echo "User $username’s password changed!"
done

Run the file. All the passwords are changed.


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