Re: Thanks for a smooth 2.6 to 2.8 transistion

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:48:30PM -0800, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> 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.

Sure, but they keep a list if users, and a list of groups they have right to,
and it is easy to add the right groups at creation time with a variant of the
above. In fact it is probably the most efficient way of doing this.

Friendly,

Sven Luther