Answers to practice exercise 2

In this section, we'll copy each item from the list of goals, and explain them while using proper syntax highlighting.

1. Download the necessary file from this book's GitHub repository at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PacktPublishing/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-8-Administration/main/chapter-19-exercise2/users.txt

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PacktPublishing/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-8-Administration/main/chapter-19-exercise2/users.txt

2. Use the users.txt file to generate users in the system in an automated way using the values provided, in the following order: username, placeholder, uid, gid, name, home, shell

First, let's examine the users.txt file with the following code:

cat users.txt
user;x;1000;1000;myuser1;/home/user1; /bin/false
john ;x ;1001 ;1001; John; /home/john ;/bin/false
doe ;x ;1001 ;1001; Doe; /home/doe ; /bin/csh
athena ;x ;1011 ;1011; Athena Jones; /home/ajones ; /bin/rsh
pilgrim ;x ;2011 ;2011...