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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
- Subject: Re: User registration on diverse computer systems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.152434.27369@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 15:24:34 GMT
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- sfreed@lacerta.unm.edu (Steve Freed) writes:
- ...
- }Anyone wanting a computer account logs into any Unix system as the user "new"
- }where they are prompted for a variety of information including UNM ID number,
- ...
- }Then there is user deletion, which is the bigger, more difficult part of the
- }code. Each night, we look to see who has left the University. If they
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- Really? Why so often? We do deletions once a semester (I'd like to
- do them each month, but we have to pay our Admin Data Proc Ctr for
- each "tape").
-
- John
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