[ILUG] Deleting Multiple Users at Once

[conor at discuskeeping.com]

Quoting Kae Verens <kae at verens.com>:

> paul at clubi.ie wrote:
>> 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.

Eeuuh NIS, use LDAP people. Good point about the using different ID's  
though Paul.

I never really thought of that.

> would formatting the drives and reinstalling the system be out of the
> question?

Ah yes, the sledgehammer approach. :-)

Regards
Conor.