BUGA: the Bulk User and Group Adder

#!/bin/bash

# root access check
if [ `whoami` != "root" ]
then
        echo -e "You should run this script as root (sudo will also work)."
else
        for line in `cat bugalist`
        do
                echo "==========="
                echo -e "Processing Line:\n$line"
                echo "==========="
                group=`echo $line | awk -F: '{ print $1}'`
                members=`echo $line | awk -F: '{ print $2}'`
                groupcount=`grep -c ^$group: /etc/group`
                if [ $groupcount -ne 0 ]
                then
                        echo -e "\tGroup '$group' already exists."
                else
                        echo -e "\tCreating group '$group' ..."
                        groupadd $group
                fi
                echo -e "\t\tMembers: $members"
                for member in `echo $members | sed 's/,/ /g'`
                do
                        usercount=`grep -c ^$member: /etc/passwd`
                        if [ $usercount  -ne 0 ]
                        then
                                echo -e "\t\t\tUser '$member' already exists."
                        else
                                echo -e "\t\t\tCreating user '$member' ..."
                                useradd $member
                                # create random 8 character password
                                password=`</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 8`
                                echo "$member:$password" | chpasswd
                                echo -e "\t\t\tPassword for user '$member' set to: $password"
                        fi
                        membershipstatus=`groups $member | grep -c $group`
                        if [ $membershipstatus -ne 0 ]
                        then
                                echo -e "\t\t\tUser '$member' is already a member of '$group'."
                        else
                                echo -e "\t\t\tAdding user '$member' to group '$group' ..."
                                usermod -aG $group $member
                        fi
                        syscheck=`id $member`; echo -e "\t\t\t$syscheck"; echo ""
                done
        done
fi