Optimizing My Company's Developers and Group Management with Bash Script Automation

Bash Script: create_users.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Log file and password file paths
LOG_FILE="/var/log/user_management.log"
PASSWORD_FILE="/var/secure/user_passwords.csv"

# Function to log actions
log_action() {
    echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - $1" >> $LOG_FILE
}

# Function to generate random passwords
generate_password() {
    openssl rand -base64 12
}

# Check if the input file is provided
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <name-of-text-file>"
    exit 1
fi

# Create log and password files
touch $LOG_FILE
mkdir -p /var/secure
touch $PASSWORD_FILE
chmod …

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