How to create user and password in one script for 100+ users

Question

I have written a script for adding and setting password for 100+ users. Eg: for setting password of the user I want to set in "user+123" format for all the users I.e user will change according to the username in password. How can I write a script for this.

#!/bin/bash
for i in `more users.txt`
do
useradd $i;
echo "User $i added successfully"
passwd $("$i"123)
echo "Password added successfully for user"
done

Please do not use photos were text will do. It is not that difficult typing in that script. — Rui F Ribeiro, Jan 23 '18 at 12:37
I would look at changing the passwords for users in batch mode using chpasswd. — Raman Sailopal, Jan 23 '18 at 13:12

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 23 '18 at 16:53

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#!/bin/bash
for i in $( cat users.txt ); do
    useradd $i
    echo "user $i added successfully!"
    echo $i:$i"123" | chpasswd
    echo "Password for user $i changed successfully"
done

This little script should be what you are looking for. It adds the user first, then proceeds to change the password. Avoid using backticks, as they are deprecated, $() is a good alternative.

edited Jan 23 '18 at 16:53

Alexander

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answered Jan 23 '18 at 12:55

Hunter.S.Thompson

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Please give a reason for the downvote, maybe I can learn something, something I did wrong? – Hunter.S.Thompson Jan 23 '18 at 16:59
Where do you see that back ticks are deprecated? It says nothing about that in the official manual. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Substitution – Natalie Adams Aug 03 '18 at 04:09
@NathanAdams, https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/126928/237568 – Hunter.S.Thompson Aug 03 '18 at 13:35
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation – Hunter.S.Thompson Aug 03 '18 at 13:40
@Hunter.S.Thompson Works like a charm , thanks alot – somethingSomething Aug 22 '18 at 05:56
ksh is not bash, and as an AIX developer for many years, there is a lot of syntax out there that is "deprecated", or undocumented (IBM internal use only stuff). Sitewide on SE there is one mention of lquerypv for instance. Bash on AIX supports backticks, but you would need to have it installed. – mckenzm Dec 10 '18 at 23:50

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '18 at 21:37

The other answers provide technical answers for how to do this. But please don't do this.

As soon as a threat actor sees the pattern, they could log in as any other user. (And even if you force a password change on first login, someone could lock out all of the other users.)

Instead, send each user a random password, or a token via email to be used to set a new password.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 23 '18 at 16:54

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In below script i am creating 5 users like user1,user2,user3,user4,user5 and setting the pasword as "username+123" for each user Tested and it worked successfully.

You can change number of users as per requirment

for i in user{1..5}; do useradd $i; passwd -d $i; echo $i"123" | passwd  $i --stdin; done

If you have a text file in which you have specific usernames, you can use

for i in $(cat users.txt); do useradd $i; passwd -d $i; echo $i"123" | passwd  $i --stdin; done

edited Jan 23 '18 at 16:54

Hunter.S.Thompson

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answered Jan 23 '18 at 14:24

Praveen Kumar BS

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OP wants the users to have unique names, and the password should be $user123, your answer does not accommodate that. – Hunter.S.Thompson Jan 23 '18 at 16:03
@Hunter.S.Thompson Edited the answer and changed as per the requirement and tested too . its working fine – Praveen Kumar BS Jan 23 '18 at 16:49
I edited your answer to properly show what the OP needs to do when the usernames are in a textfile. – Hunter.S.Thompson Jan 23 '18 at 16:55

How to create user and password in one script for 100+ users

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