users.bash

#!/bin/env bash
# Author Paul Wand 2010
#
# This script creates users based text file containing usernames
#
# requires apg (automatic password generator):
# sudo yum install apg 

# nab list of users from gist.github
users=`curl http://gist.github.com/raw/563371/6db567224f54db7e061c75789e3dec5dc740f53f/eosuserroster`
echo "move your mouse around to increase speed"
for user in $users
  do
	# -m creates the home directory
	adduser -m  $user

	# setting the password can take a long time
	# to speed this process up, move the mouse around
	# this works because apg uses /dev/random to generate the passwords
	password=`apg -n 1`
      
	#save the auto generated password
	echo $user:$password >>passwords
 	
	#set the password to the user
	echo $password|passwd $user --stdin 
	chage $user -d 0
  done
  if [ `cat passwords|wc -l` = 23 ]; then
	echo "Complete! resulting username passwords are stored in the passwords file"
	echo "your password is different now too, you should probably change it!"
  fi