Re: Thanks for a smooth 2.6 to 2.8 transistion

[Ryan Lovett <ryan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:36:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:16:59PM -0800, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> > What about sites that have hundreds of users? Adding everyone to the
> > plugdev group would be somewhat unwieldy. (I'm not griping, I'm just
> > interested in a solution.) Is there an alternative to this?
> 
> for user in `ls /home | grep -v lost+found`; do adduser $user plugdev; done


Its a management problem, not a task problem. For educational sites, each
semester adds and removes hundreds of new class accounts on top of visiting
scholar accounts, expiring graduated student accounts, etc.

Ryan