[K12OSN] End Of Year Cleaning

[Brian Chivers]

You can feed the output from the bulk user create script into the bulk 
delete and this will delete them one at a time, that's if you used this 
to create the users.

Brian

Mark Sarria wrote:
> Well, I am using Samba-LDAP server, I looked in webmin and can't seem to
> follow what you're talking about. I used the scripts provided (IDEALX) to
> create the user account. I see there is a delete script but not sure if it
> can be used to delete user accounts from just one group.
>
> Mark Sarria
> Sylmar High School
> LAUSD
> (818) 367-0299
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
> Of Scott Sherrill
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:30 AM
> To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] End Of Year Cleaning
>
> Huck wrote:
>   
>> I would like to just delete all the accounts in one group the STUDENT 
>> group,
>> is there a way of doing this?
>>     
>
>   
>> you can use the webmin batch to do that...
>> extract the usernames
>> create a file:
>> deletethese.txt  that contains the following:
>> delete:usernameX
>> delete:usernameY
>> delete:usernameZ
>> etc...
>>
>> then with the webmin useradmin module..
>> use that file to delete the users&homedirs.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> To build on Huck's suggestion if the students are all in group 100 (for 
> example) you could do something like:
>
> cat /etc/passwd | grep ":100:" | cut -d: -f1 | awk '{print "delete:"$1}'
>
> from the command line
>
> which will give you output similar to:
> delete:games
> delete:scott
> delete:eric
> delete:sherial
> ....
>
> Double check before send the list into webmin - for example because I 
> chose :100: as my search criteria,  there is a system account called 
> games that is has a userid of 100 and it picked it up as well.
>
> Scott
>
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