[K12OSN] deleting a 1000 users

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Wed Jun 9 17:31:28 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:21, Glenn Arnold wrote:

> Looks like everything is in order with passwd and shadow file.  Earlier
> this year I had problem in the passwd file with an account that would
> cause Red Hat's User and Group to exit out with an error, so I thought
> my batch deleting problems might be still lingering from the problems I
> had earlier with the passwd and shadow files. I was removing the
> students off the server in preparation to move to ldap.  The less users
> to move the better.

The 'pwck' file will try to identify problems with your password
and shadow files, and 'pwconv' will fix up the shadow file if there
aren't too many problems.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com






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