Automating User Creation and Management with a Bash Script

In this article, we'll walk through a bash script that reads user information from a text file, creates users and their groups, sets up home directories, generates random passwords, logs actions, and stores passwords securely.

Bash Script: create_users.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Define file paths
LOG_FILE="/var/log/user_management.log"
PASSWORD_FILE="/var/secure/user_passwords.txt"
INPUT_FILE=$1

# Ensure secure directory for passwords
mkdir -p /var/secure
chmod 700 /var/secure

# Function to generate random password
generate_password() {
    tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 12
}

# Ensure log file exists …

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