Creates a user account with correct permissions to host a website with Apache.

webuseradd.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z $1 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $(basename $0) [name]"
  exit 1
fi

message() {
  printf '%-60s' "$*"
}

success() {
  printf "[\033[32mSUCCESS\033[0m]\n"
}

failure() {
  printf "[\033[31mFAILURE\033[0m]\n"
}

try() {
  result=$($* 2>&1)
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    failure
    echo $result
    exit 1
  fi
  success
}

message "Creating user $1"
try useradd "$1"

message "Chmoding home dir"
try find "/home/$1" -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \;

message "Making apache user belong to this user's group"
try usermod -aG "$1" apache