Automating User Creation and Management with Bash: A Step-by-Step Guide

Automating user creation and management can save time, reduce errors, and enhance security for SysOps engineers. In this article, we will go over a Bash script that automates the creation of users and groups, sets up home directories, and manages passwords securely. The script reads from a text file where each line consists of a username and their corresponding groups, logs every action in a log file, and saves the randomly generated passwords for each user in a …

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