Linux Script that Adds New Samba Users

I did have a hard time looking for information regarding linux scripts that adds new samba users (many users) so I decided to log the script I made to add new samba users. I tried to use the method that some sites suggested that copies the /etc/passwd to /etc/samba/smbpasswd via cat < /etc/passwd | makesmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd, but this does not work. By the way, I'm using Samba 3.025d under OpenSuse 10.2

So i tried to figure it out by conducting a trial and error 'experiments' and luckily I did it. The things I've done are the following:

First I add 1000 UNIX users using the following scripts (unixusers.sh)

#—————————————————————————————————–

# Script: unixusers.sh - use for creating 1000 users by Felix 

#I declare 100 unique passwords in an array

declare apasswords[100]
apasswords[0]="password1"
apasswords[1]="pasword2"
apasswords[1]="… and so on… up to 100 unique passwords'

n=0
for ((i=1;i<=1000;i++))
do
    echo "user$i = ${apasswords[n]}" >> mypasswords.txt
    cuser="user$i"
    cpassword="${apasswords[n]}"
    echo "Wait creating user $cuser = $cpassword, please wait…"
    useradd $cuser -p $cpassword
    n=`expr $n + 1`
    if test $n -gt 100

    then
        n=0
    fi
done
#—————— unixusers.sh ends here ———————————-

The unixusers.sh script will create 1000 UNIX users with passwords.User ids and passwords are saved inside a text file name: mypasswords.txt, if in case you want to have print-out of the users and passwords.

Now, the following is the script that adds the 1000 UNIX users to SAMBA (/etc/samba/smbpasswd) 

#—————————————————————————————————–

# Script: sambausers.sh - use for creating 1000 SMB users by Felix

 #I declare 100 unique passwords in an array the same as the passwords on unixusers.sh

declare apasswords[100]
apasswords[0]="password1"
apasswords[1]="pasword2"
apasswords[1]="… and so on… up to 100 unique passwords'
 

n=0
for ((i=1;i<=1000;i++))
do
    rm temp.txt
    echo "${apasswords[n]}" >> temp.txt
    echo "${apasswords[n]}" >> temp.txt
    cuser="user$i"
    cpassword="${apasswords[n]}"
    echo "Wait creating user $cuser = $cpassword, please wait…"   
    smbpasswd -a $cuser -s < temp.txt
    n=`expr $n + 1`

    if test $n -gt 100   

    then
        n=0
    fi
done
 #—————— sambausers.sh ends here ———————————-

That's all folks! A script that adds new samba users (for SAMBA 3.025d in openSUSE 10.2).