🧪 User Account Management Script

📌 Overview

Automates Linux user account creation using Bash + CSV.
Ideal for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and educational labs.

🚀 Features

• CSV-driven input: Manage users via employee.csv
• Secure password generation: Random strong passwords with openssl
• Root validation: Ensures script runs with admin privileges
• Automated account creation: Adds users with metadata + home directories
• Password enforcement: Forces password change on first login
• Audit logging: Saves credentials to out.text
• Interactive CSV builder: Script for manual entry and confirmation

📂 File Structure

File	Description
employee.csv	Input usernames + full names
out.text	Output with generated credentials
create_csv.sh	Interactive CSV builder
create_users.sh	Main automation script
script/script-create-csv-file.png	Screenshot of CSV creation
script/user-account-csv-workflow.png	Workflow diagram
script/capstone-title-slide.png	Project title slide
script/bash-script-preview.png	Script preview

📋 Usage

1. Prepare the CSV file

bash create_csv.sh

2. Run the automation script
bash
sudo bash create_users.sh
3. Check output
Created users and their passwords will be logged in out.text.

🖼️ Workflow

🛠️ Requirements
Linux environment

Bash shell

openssl installed

📚 Educational Value
Perfect for:

Capstone presentations

System administration labs

DevOps onboarding demos

📊 Demo Example
Sample employee.csv:

Username	Full Name
aws	Amazon Web Services
K8s	Kubernetes
Output out.text:

Code
aws,randomPassword123
K8s,securePassXYZ
👨‍💻 Author
Sayed Atwh — Third-year Computer Science student at Beni-Suef University, aspiring Cloud & DevOps Engineer.

## 📬 Contact
- GitHub: https://github.com/SayedAtwh
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayed-atwh-sayed
- Email: sayed.atwh.sayed@example.com