usermatic
usermatic is a collection of Perl scripts that automate the maintenance of the
accounts in the passwd database. Basically they work by comparing a MD5
sum over two sets of data from every user (such as the name and the
birthdate, for example) to a list of current
students/employees/whatever. They create a list of accounts to be removed
and a list of accounts to be created that is suitable for use with userneu.
A detailed description of how they work can be found in the README file.
Those scripts have originally been written for use on Linux and FreeBSD
but they should work on other unices with a Perl distribution as well.
Probably the only script that needs to be adapted is the reaper.pl
script that uses rmuser(8) (FreeBSD) or userdel(8) (Linux). These scripts
are still experimental but they should work fine. Please report bugs to me
if you find them.
Update 18. 12. 2003: usermatic-0.5.4 released which fixes a bug that causes reaper.pl not to work
Update 08. 02. 2004: usermatic-0.6.0 released. Code and
documentation cleanups
Update 09. 07. 2004: usermatic-0.6.1 released. Some minor changes and
cleanups. Update recommended if you use usermatic-frontend
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