July 2, 2024, 1:56 p.m. | Powei Erewejoh

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As a SysOps engineer, automating user creation and management is essential for maintaining system efficiency and security, especially when onboarding new developers. This article presents a robust Bash script to read a text file with usernames and group names, create the necessary users and groups, set up home directories, generate random passwords, and log all actions.


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