shell script, create bulk account

[webelo]

hello there,

was wondering if there is or if its easy to create a shell script that will let me add domains to a server in bulk (like 200 domain), I want to get a list of domain in a .data file, the script should read the file, create the usernames and group for each domain, set a default password, add to virtualhosting apache, create user folder /home/<user>/

Is this possible? Is there anything like this out there?

I don't know, maybe it can run like this...
#!/bin/sh
cat domain.data | \
while read domain
do
echo "Found domain: $domain"
done
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But than have to do the rest

Can anyone help?


Thanks

[devnull3d]

That shouldn't be too hard even in bash but I'd perfer to use perl. I'll attempt to throw something together (untested)

#!/bin/bash
for domain in `cat domain`
do
 mkdir /home/$domain
 chown apache:apache /home/$domain
 cat apache_vhost_template | sed "s/domain_template/$domain" >> /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
done

Not exactly what you asked for but it should do the trick, of course you need to create apache_vhost_template yourself, it should look something like this

$ cat apache_vhost_template
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain_template
DocumentRoot /home/domain_template
</VirtualHost>