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A minimal implementation of adduser command in Linux as part of the Computer Security course at NIT Calicut

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DESCRIPTION
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A user interactive minimal implementation of the adduser/useradd command in linux written
as part of the Computer Security course at NIT Calicut. It basically prompts for a username
and password and creates the shadow type password hash and adds the userinfo to the /etc/passwd 
and the hashed password to the /etc/shadow file. 


USAGE
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** Warning : The script can only be run as a root user. Use at your own risk! **

Run this command in a root shell
- wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/afeedh/minimal-adduser/master/adduser.sh && chmod +x adduser.sh && bash adduser.sh