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Re: Remove user script?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Banghart)
Tue Nov 19 11:31:06 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:29:31 -0500
From: John Banghart <john@future.success.net>
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M. Neidorff wrote:
>
> At 09:19 AM 11/18/96 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have a situation where using the usercfg program isn't feasible and
> >the person removing the users isn't really Linux-saavy. Is there a
> >removeuser script somewhere I can have them use?
> >
>
> Regretfully, removing a user is not that straight-forward. Has the user
> created any important documents? Does the user own and scripts? Is there a
> chance that the user may come back on-line? Someone does need to know what
> they are doing before removing a user's account, IMO.
Except that usercfg does all of that. I'm not debating the merits of
removing users, I'm asking if there is a shell script that does it for
me?
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John Banghart
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