Script to add multiple users in ubuntu (Bulk)

Question

I need to add 10 users by a script in Ubuntu 12.04.

That could reduces time by adding users manually , and i can apply this script on other desktop .

Each user will has a specific user and in specific group.

Any idea?

possible duplicate of Shell script to automate user addition — Ron, May 08 '15 at 13:54

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited May 08 '15 at 14:26

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Open a terminal and type: vim /tmp/name to create a file and the names of the users: eg:

vim /tmp/name
mika
mery
etc

Create User with Home Dir and default shell:

for i in `cat /tmp/name`; do useradd -m -d /home/$i -s /bin/bash $i; done

Create password for each user:

for i in `cat /tmp/name`; do passwd $i; done

edited May 08 '15 at 14:26

Ron

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answered May 08 '15 at 13:47

Archy k

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '17 at 15:30

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Try newusers echo "vivek:myUltraSecretPassword" | sudo newusers

answered Sep 05 '17 at 15:30

Leszek

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 25 '14 at 21:52

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You could try this, I suppose.

for user in {1..200}; do
    echo "Creating user$user"
    cat <<EOF | adduser --gid 500 user$user
password
password
user$user







EOF
done

answered Jan 25 '14 at 21:52

kiri

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here all users are in the same group. – guntbert Jan 25 '14 at 22:21
@guntbert They were in the OP's answer, as well. All were in 513 in the OP's. – kiri Jan 25 '14 at 22:33
true, but the question stated: "Each user will has a specific user and in specific group." - which you could achieve by omitting the --gid 500 part. – guntbert Jan 26 '14 at 11:27

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Look at the answer here,which says unless you have a whole lot of users to add the best way is to use adduser (for adding users) and usermod (for adding a user to a group) which takes care of a lot of things. If you still wish for some pre-made script, there is one here and another one here, but I do not know if they really work for you

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answered May 08 '15 at 13:57

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Nischay · Answer 5 · 2014-01-25T23:38:19.127

It is my solution. I created file /tmp/userlist and added all users name, after completion of script it will create users and you can find user name and given random password in file /tmp/userlist-created. I know it is not perfect solution.

root@demobox:/root : cat /tmp/userlist
xyz1
zyz2
zyz3

root@demobox:/root : cat demo.sh
#!/bin/bash

if [ -f /tmp/userlist ]
then
for i in $(cat /tmp/userlist)
do
if [ -f /usr/bin/pwgen ]
then
PASSWORD=$(pwgen -1 -s 16)
else
PASSWORD=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc "passwordNSR!@#$%0-9" | fold -w 9 | head -1)
fi
useradd -s /bin/bash -d "/home/$i" -m -p "$PASSWORD" "$i"
echo "$i --------- $PASSWORD" >>/tmp/userlist-created
done
else
echo "File /tmp/userlist not found"
fi
chmod 0600 /tmp/userlist-created

root@demobox:/root : ./demo.sh

root@demobox:/root : cat /tmp/userlist-created
xyz1 --------- FivSHfdbDCRffhc7
zyz2 --------- AIjFjE0bv3FslHnp
zyz3 --------- JazcGcKYp2Y0I3Rk

root@demobox:/root : egrep "xyz1|zyz2|zyz3" /etc/passwd
xyz1:x:9016:100::/home/xyz1:/bin/bash
zyz2:x:9017:100::/home/zyz2:/bin/bash
zyz3:x:9018:100::/home/zyz3:/bin/bash

Script to add multiple users in ubuntu (Bulk)

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