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I would highly appreciate anyone who can create the following script...

The script I need will be called like
./scriptname username password
and I need it to then add the user, create a group with the same name as the username and change the password to that supplied.
I am on an Ubuntu system if that info is needed.

I plan to add this script to the beginning of another script I have. The resulting script will make my life a heck of a lot easier. The only issue im having is the adding user, adding group and changing password in that manner.

Again, I would highly appreciate anyone who can create this much needed script.

Thank you

something like this. you need perl to execute it. sudo may needed on ubuntu.

I also would like to ask if someone can help me with editing one line from a file...

The "resulting script" mentioned in my first post will also need to edit /home/jail/etc/passwd (the /etc/passwd on the system will remain unedited)...

from:
username:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/jail/./home/username:/usr/sbin/jk_chrootsh

to:
username:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/jail/./home/username:/bin/bash

where the 1001 will be different and the username will be the username passed via ./scriptname username password

this is not a cracking related forum. also you may need permisson to change that file. if it is your system why do ya need to use fakeroot

I'm creating a jail environment for ssh users. However I will likely be needing to add users every so often and it's a lot of commands to add a user. I know a little bit about bash scripting but am having issues with the editing of that one file and originally the creating user.