🐧 Linux User Account Management TUI

A comprehensive Terminal User Interface (TUI) tool for managing Linux user accounts, groups, and monitoring session activities.

Built with ❤️ for Linux System Administration

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📸 Preview

Main TUI Interface

✨ Features

👤 User Management

• 🆕 Create User: Set up new user accounts with customizable settings

  • ✅ Username validation
  • 🏠 Custom home directory
  • 🐚 Shell selection
  • 👥 Primary group assignment
  • 🔗 Supplementary group membership

• ✏️ Modify User: Update existing user accounts

  • 🏷️ Change username
  • 📝 Update full name
  • 📁 Relocate home directory
  • 🐚 Change login shell
  • 🔐 Reset password
  • 👥 Modify group memberships

• 🗑️ Delete User: Remove user accounts with option to preserve or delete home directory

• ℹ️ User Information: Display detailed user information including UID, GID, groups

👥 Group Management

• 🆕 Create Group: Create new groups with optional GID specification
• ✏️ Modify Group: Update group properties
  • 🏷️ Rename groups
  • 👤 Add/remove group members
• 🗑️ Delete Group: Remove groups from the system
• ℹ️ Group Information: View detailed group information

📊 Session Logging and Monitoring

• 📋 User Session Logs: Review login history and session data
  • 🕐 Login history tracking
  • ❌ Failed login attempt monitoring
  • 🟢 Current active sessions
  • 🔍 Last login information
  • ⏱️ Session duration statistics
• 📈 User Activity Summary: View consolidated user activity metrics
• 🌐 System-wide Session Statistics: Review system-level login data and uptime

🛠️ Requirements

• 🐧 Linux system with root/sudo privileges
• 💬 dialog package (for TUI interface)
• ⚙️ Standard Linux user management commands (useradd, usermod, etc.)

🚀 Installation

1️⃣ Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/KrishnaSaxena108/User-Group-Manager-And-User-Session-Logger.git
cd User-Group-Manager-And-User-Session-Logger

2️⃣ Make the script executable

chmod +x Project.sh

3️⃣ Install dependencies

# On Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install dialog

# On RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
sudo yum install dialog
# or
sudo dnf install dialog

🎯 Usage

Run the script with root privileges:

sudo ./Project.sh

🎮 Navigation

• Use Arrow Keys to navigate
• Use Tab to switch between elements
• Press Enter to select options
• Press Esc to go back or cancel

🔒 Security Features

• ✅ Input validation for all user entries
• ⚠️ Confirmation dialogs for destructive operations
• 🔐 Secure password management through standard Linux tools
• 📝 Detailed action logging with timestamps
• 👮 Permission checking to ensure root-only access

📄 Log File

All user and group management actions are logged to:

/var/log/user_management.log

Log Information Includes:

• 🕐 Timestamp
• 👤 User/Group name
• 🎯 Action performed
• 👨‍💻 Actor who performed the action

📱 Screenshots

User Management Interface

Group Management Interface

📁 Project Structure

User-Group-Manager-And-User-Session-Logger/
├── 📜 Project.sh         # Main script
├── 📖 README.md          # This file
└── 📋 G19-PID-03.pdf     # Project documentation

👨‍💻 Team Members

Tanishq Gupta 2310992384

Krishna Saxena 2310991705

Ansh Jolly 2310991694

Armaan Singh Thind 2310991704

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🎓 About This Project

This project was developed as part of the Linux System Administration course. Our team focused on creating a user-friendly interface that simplifies complex Linux user and group management tasks while maintaining security and providing comprehensive logging capabilities.

🙏 Acknowledgements

• 🎯 Inspired by the need for a user-friendly interface for Linux user management
• 🛠️ Based on standard Linux user and group management utilities
• 📚 Created for educational purposes as part of Linux System Administration coursework

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