mkuser is a simple tool to allow for the easy creation of users on a tilde style server.
mkuser uses the OS defined configuration for the useradd command. On a Redhat derived system this will be in /etc/login.defs. No configuration for the user is held by any mkuser file.
The email template must be located at /etc/mkuser/mail.tmpl and it uses Python's string Template format. Further details on the syntax can be found within the Python documentation.
usage: mkuser [-h] username email sshkey
positional arguments:
username Username of the new user
email Email address to send the welcome mail to
sshkey SSH public key
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Executable files located in /etc/mkuser/pre.d or /etc/mkuser/post.d will be executed after the user has been created, they will be called with the username of the newly created (or to be created) user.