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+We have two standard Debian GNU scripts to perform user management.\r
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+== adduser ==\r
+First, adduser, does the usual job, and executes /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local. \r
+There we log new account creation to our special log file, and set up \r
+group quotas. We can't set up quotas by defining the appropriate variable\r
+in /etc/adduser.conf because that works for user quotas only, and not\r
+group quotas. What a shame.\r
+\r
+== deluser ==\r
+The tool to delete users is deluser. What's wrong with deluser is that it\r
+can remove user's files at deletion time, and it can also back them up\r
+before that. You can specify backup directory, but it goes tar-gzipping\r
+the files, which can take a long time. I need to hack the source to allow\r
+files to just be moved to the backup directory. This way, if you keep \r
+backup dir on the same partition as /home, moving user's files is\r
+instant and doesn't grow linearly with user directory size.\r
+----\r
+CategorySystemAdministration\r