A simple bash script which allows you to create batches of users in one go, and populate their home directories with specific files. This is useful for teaching and demonstration purposes.
For obvious purposes this script needs to be run as root.
The mkusers script is available via Portage as app-misc/mkusers (from the Chymeric Overlay). Just run the following command:
emerge app-misc/mkusers
If you are not yet using the Chymeric Overlay, it can be enabled with just two commands, as seen in its README.
Either clone as user, and navigate to the directory to execute the file as root, or clone directly as root.
git clone https://github.com/TheChymera/mkusers.git
The script can be executed in place:
cd /path/to/your-script-containing-directory
./mkusers.sh
If you have chosen the manual installation option above, you will have to use the executable path instead of just the script name in the following examples (i.e. ./mkusers.sh instead of mkusers).
Create 9 users named user01 through user09, set user-specific passwords (e.g. EXCITE17user01 for user01), and place the neurodata directory found at /home/someotheruser/neurodata in each of their home paths.
./mkusers.sh "-Uuser"{01..09} -q -p EXCITE17 -c /home/someotheruser/neurodata
Remove users "user01" through "user09", including their home directories and mail spools.
./mkusers.sh "-Uuser"{01..09} -q -R