Creating users and groups from a standardized input file and a random password for each user

In the previous recipe, we dealt with a way of creating new users. In this one, we are going to expand on this using a similar script to not only create new users but also assign them groups provided with the user, giving the administrator information on new user passwords.

Getting ready

We are creating users, so this script has to be run under an administrator account. In this particular case, we also probably want to redirect the output of the script to some file since passwords for new users are created when the script is run, and passwords are not stored anywhere. If we don't save them somewhere, they are going to be lost and recreated.

How to do it…

In the previous recipe, we mentioned that passwords should never be stored anywhere, but when creating new users, this is completely inevitable. We feel that the way we deal with passwords in this recipe is better...