Re: Deleting many Users

[King_Kong <o1o kh refer org>]

I'll do it a try...

Thanks a lot Sven!

K_K

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Sven Vermeulen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 03:31:16PM +0700, King_Kong wrote:
> > I have a text file containing some usernames (500) like this:
> > user1
> > user2
> > user3
> 
> I assume you want to delete those users from the system ;-)
> 
> 	~$ cat remove_those_users yourfile
> 	#!/bin/bash
> 
> 	while read userline
> 	do
> 		/usr/sbin/userdel -r $userline
> 	done < $1
> 	~$ 
> 
> So the only thing you need to do is
> 
> 	~# ./remove_those_users yourfile
> 
> And your users will be history.
> Also, if you _don't_ want to remove their home-directories too, remove the
> "-r" from the script.
> 
> Wkr,
> 	Sven Vermeulen
> 
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