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From: eotten@ucqais.uc.edu (Ellen Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: adding/removing accounts
Message-ID: <1650@ucqais.uc.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 89 19:17:51 GMT
Organization: Univ of Cincinnati, College of Business Admin.
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Hi,

I am going to install Ultrix soon on a 8650.  I am sure to have a lot of
questions.  In preparation however, I do have a question that I would like
to propose to the net:  

Here at the University of Cincinnati, we add an account for each student that
is taking a computer class and then remove it at the end of the quarter.  We
get a list of registered students form the registrar.  So at then end of each
quarter I'll need to remove and then add a bunch of accounts.  On our VMS
machine we run a program to automate this procedure.  My question is :
how can I automate this for Ultrix? (The file from the registrar contains
ss# and birthdate which we use for username/password)  Should I write a script,
a c program, or go another route?  I will be installing 3.0.  Thanks for
all responses.

Ellen Otten
EOTTEN AT UCQAIS.UC.EDU
OTTEN AT UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU
CCONERO AT UCCCVM1.BITNET
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