[ILUG] Deleting Multiple Users at Once

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> 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

Just disabling the accounts would be /far/ better than the above, 
because of the step it misses.

Standard best practice at large sites is to /not/ re-use IDs.

regards,
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