{"id":3165,"date":"2010-06-13T06:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T10:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2010-06-13T06:11:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T10:11:12","slug":"bash-script-for-creating-multiple-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/bash-script-for-creating-multiple-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"bash script for creating multiple accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.amit-agarwal.co.in\/2010\/06\/09\/scripts-to-create-logins-from-bash-command-for-creating-multiple-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog.amit-agarwal.co.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\ncat < <EOF > login.sh<br \/>\nfor i in  `cat logins` ; do<br \/>\nlogin=`echo \u201c$i\u201d|awk -F\u201d:\u201d \u2018{print $2}\u2019`;<br \/>\ncomment=\u201d`echo \u201c$i\u201d|awk -F\u201d:\u201d \u2018{print $1}\u2019`\u201d;<br \/>\ngr=\u201d`echo \u201c$i\u201d|awk -F\u201d:\u201d \u2018{print $3}\u2019`\u201d;<br \/>\necho \u201clogin \u2013>> $login \u2013Comment \u2013>> $comment  \u2013Group \u2013>>$gr  \u2013\u201d;<br \/>\necho \u201cuseradd -c \u201d$comment\u201d -d \/export\/home\/$login -m -g $gr -s \/bin\/bash $login\u201d<br \/>\nuseradd -c \u201c$comment\u201d -d \/export\/home\/$login -m -g $gr -s \/bin\/bash $login<br \/>\ndone<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You will need to create a file called logins to store the comment, login name and the group. 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