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Prof. Orlando Karam maintains an Ubuntu Linux server for his class.

Every semester he needs to create an account for each student. It takes a lot of time to create these accounts one by one interactively.

So he decides to automate the process by writing a script. You are Orlando's TA and volunteered to complete the task.

Please propose a solution and write a script (either Bash or Perl) to implement your solution.

Basic requirements:

The script reads from a CSV file for student information (exported from Excel).

The file is made up of the lines like this: Jack,Zheng,jzheng3 //[first name],[last name],[campus email id] Mark,Cuban,mcuban2 ...

Please make up your own CSV file (with at least 5 students/lines) for testing purpose.

Every student is assigned a common initial password (you will determine the password). Students are required to change their passwords at first login.

All student accounts should be assigned to a "student" group. This group already exists in the system (you need to create this group first for testing purpose). Make some other assumptions if not specifically required. Reminder: you will and should do some research on how to read and parse CSV files, and how to process passwords programmatically.

Execute your script and take two screen shots:

a. The "passwd" file content, with the new accounts clearly shown. (Screenshot A3-1)

b. The "shadow" file content, with the new accounts clearly shown. (Screenshot A3-2)

2. Login with one of the new student account and show that you have successfully logged in using the newly created account. Take a screen shot showing the user id in the terminal. (Screenshot A3-3) 3.

Compile one PDF document with the script, the CSV file content, and all three screen shots, clearly labeled for each part.