User administration script
GNU/Linux is a multiuser operating system allowing many users to log in and perform several activities at the same time. There are several administration tasks that are handled with user management, which include setting the default shell for the user, disabling a user account, disabling a shell account, adding new users, removing users, setting a password, setting an expiry date for a user account, and so on. This recipe aims at writing a user management tool that can handle all of these tasks.
How to do it…
Let's go through the user administration script:
#!/bin/bash #Filename: user_adm.sh #Description: A user administration tool function usage() { echo Usage: echo Add a new user echo $0 -adduser username password echo ...Get Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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