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Adding/Removing Users

To add a new user to the Unix engineering systems follow these steps:
    - Determine which server; moby, neptune, or starfish has the most
      available "/export/home" file system space
    - Add user to NIS map files on the torpedo system:
	/etc/NISmaster/passwd
	/etc/NISmaster/group
	/etc/mail/aliases
      Users currently all belong to the group staff.
    - Execute (cd /var/yp; make) to update NIS maps
    - Execute /usr/local/lib/convert_aliases a utility that converts
      the system alias file to an Elm alias file and updates the
      torpedo, neptune, and nimo Elm system alias file.
    - Login as root on the system picked for the home directory.
    - Create home directory for at "/export/home/loginid".
    - Change owner of the directory to be the new user.
    - Change group to be staff
    - Do an su - "loginid"
    - Execute /usr/local/newuser a utility that sets up a standard
      environment and e-mails the new user an information file about
      the basic configuration.  The template files are located at
      "/pkg/newuser_files".

To remove users from the system we disable their passwd entry, tar and
compress the users home directory structure and put the file on tape.
We also change their e-mail alias file entry to "/dev/null" to keep
anymore e-mail from being stored for this user.  Finally you need to
update the NIS maps and Elm alias files.