[ILUG] Deleting Multiple Users at Once

[Pádraig Brady]

Cormac McClean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Teach Linux System Administration to Computer Engineers and I run a
> server for their accounts (NIS/NFS/Samba).
> 
> Is there a convenient way to remove multiple users (last year's classes)
> rather than (a) doing them individually by hand, or (b) writing a script?
> 
> I have googled and found nothing of use.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Cormac.

Is a script not convenient?
The following is just off the top of my head

group="class_of_2006"
users=`grep $group /etc/group| cut -d: -f4`
IFS=','
for user in $users; do
    userdel -r $user
done
groupdel $group

Pádraig.