Re: Dealing with old accounts?

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Hello Rolf,

Thank you for your response.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 4:53 AM Rolf-Werner Eilert <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On our server, I have scripts that can read a list of usernames to make
> or remove multiple accounts.
>

Do you mind sharing the script (or at least the relevant parts)?

And we are running LTSP5 under Ubuntu Mate 18 (yet), but I plan to
> update to a new server soon. However, I guess the same will be necessary
> there.
>

We are also running Ubuntu Mate 18 and it's been working very well so we're
not planning on updating yet.

Thank you so much,
Joseph



> Am 26.03.21 um 02:52 schrieb Joseph Bishay:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I hope you are all doing very well today.
> >
> > We are running our LTSP server and things are working very well.
> >
> > Over the years, and especially recently, we've had a situation where we
> > had a large number of students who finished at the school but their
> > files and accounts are still on the LTSP server.
> >
> > Is there a best-practice or any recommendations for how to deal with
> > accounts that are no longer active?  Both the username themselves as
> > well as their files, etc?  I'd like to free up space and resources and
> > clean up the users, etc.
> >
> > Thanks so much!
> > Joseph
> >
> >
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>
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hello Rolf,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for yo=
ur response.</div><div><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr=
" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 4:53 AM Rolf-Werner Eilert &=
lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<=
br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8e=
x;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On our server, I=
 have scripts that can read a list of usernames to make <br>
or remove multiple accounts.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you min=
d sharing the script (or at least the relevant parts)?</div><div><br></div>=
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-=
left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">And we are running LTSP5 =
under Ubuntu Mate 18 (yet), but I plan to <br>
update to a new server soon. However, I guess the same will be necessary <b=
r>
there.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We are also running Ubuntu Mate =
18 and it&#39;s been working very well so we&#39;re not planning on updatin=
g yet.=C2=A0=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much,</div><div>Jo=
seph</div><div><br></div><div>=C2=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote"=
 style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);p=
adding-left:1ex">Am 26.03.21 um 02:52 schrieb Joseph Bishay:<br>
&gt; Hello everyone,<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I hope you are all doing very well today.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; We are running our LTSP server and things=C2=A0are working very well.<=
br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Over the years, and especially recently, we&#39;ve had a situation whe=
re we <br>
&gt; had a large number of students who finished at the school but their <b=
r>
&gt; files and accounts are still on the LTSP server.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Is there a best-practice or any recommendations for how to deal with <=
br>
&gt; accounts that are no longer active?=C2=A0 Both the username themselves=
 as <br>
&gt; well as their files, etc?=C2=A0 I&#39;d like to free up space and reso=
urces and <br>
&gt; clean up the users, etc.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Thanks so much!<br>
&gt; Joseph<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; _____________________________________________________________________<=
br>
&gt; Ltsp-discuss mailing list.=C2=A0 =C2=A0To un-subscribe, or change pref=
s, goto:<br>
&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <a href=3D"https://lists.sourceforge.net/li=
sts/listinfo/ltsp-discuss" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://lis=
ts.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss</a><br>
&gt; For additional LTSP help,=C2=A0 =C2=A0try #ltsp channel on <a href=3D"=
http://irc.freenode.net" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">irc.freenode.=
net</a><br>
&gt; <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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rge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss</a><br>
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