[ILUG] Deleting Multiple Users at Once

[Cormac McClean]

>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> 
>>> while read user; do
>>>    userdel -r $user
>>> done < class_of_2006.list
>> 
>> And then students of the class of 2007 find they each may have access to 
>> 'stale' files of a student of 2006.
> 
> would formatting the drives and reinstalling the system be out of the question?
I want to avoid the whole configuration of NIS/NFS. It works currently - 
I can't guarantee that I would get it work again in time for imminent 
practicals, as it's been almost exactly 1 year since I last configured NIS.

> what if the /home is held on a hard drive which can be wiped or replaced at 
> the end of the year?
This is in fact the case - and I intend to replace that disk, but I 
still need (want?) to remove the users from system.

Thanks,
Cormac.



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