Create Users And Change Passwords With A Bash Script

These two scripts are very important for the system admin who regularly works with mail servers and somehow forgets to backup his system username and password! Let’s say somehow we lost the usernames and passwords of the mail server. In this case the admin has to manually create all the users and then change the passwords for all the users. Tedious job. Let’s make our life easier.
First create a file which contains all the user name. Something like this:

nurealam
nayeem
mrahman
farid
rubi
sankar

Save the file as userlist.txt. Now create the following bash file:

#!/bin/sh
for i in `more userlist.txt `
do
echo $i
adduser $i
done

Save the file and exit.

chmod 755 userlist.txt

Now run the file:

./userlist.txt

This will add all the users to the system. Now we have to change the passwords. Let's say we want username123 as password. So for user nayeem the password will be nayeem123, rubi123 for user rubi and so on.
Create another bash file as follows:

#!/bin/sh
for i in `more userlist.txt `
do
echo $i
echo $i"123" | passwd –-stdin "$i"
echo; echo "User $username’s password changed!"
done

Run the file. All the passwords are changed.

Network Monitoring With ntop

ntop is a network traffic tools that shows network usage in a real time. One of the good things about this tool is that you can use a web browser to manage and navigate through ntop traffic information to better understand network status.
Also Ntop monitors and reports hosts traffic and supports these protocols:

• TCP/UDP/ICMP
• (R)ARP
• IPX
• DLC
• Decnet
• AppleTalk
• Netbios
• TCP/UDP

In this tutorial we'll install ntop 3.2 in CentOS 4.


Prerequisites

Ntop 3.2
LIBPCAP
GDBM


Links
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ntop
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/4/i386/glib-1.2.10-16.i386.html

Installation 1- Installing G-LIB:

rpm -ivh  glib-1.2.10-16.i386.rpm

2- Installing ntop:

rpm -ivh ntop-3.2-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

Running ntop1- Initialize ntop:

  #ntop

That will initialize ntop and it will ask you to enter your username and password.
The default username: admin
Password: yourEnteredpassword
2- Start ntop service:

#service ntop start

Log In To The Web Interfacentop can be managed through a web interface. You can enter your server address in your web browser:

http://ServerIP:3000

https://ServerIP:3001 
Now you can monitor your hosts and manage your ntop configuration.

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