[ILUG] Deleting Multiple Users at Once

[Cormac McClean]

Hi Padraig,

 > Is a script not convenient?
I'm out of touch in the dark arts of shell scripting - I was about to 
pull out my O'Reilly Python books and rustle something together, but 
it's crazy busy at the start of the year and if I could save myself a 
few hours scripting/testing/fixing it would be a bonus. I had previously 
encountered a utility "addusers" which - as the name implies - adds 
multiple users from a list, and I was wondering if an equivalent utility 
existed for deleting them.

 > 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
Thank you very much for this - I'll give it a try (having run it through 
my brain first).

Regards,
Cormac.


Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.
> 
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