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SysAdmin: Howto Remove a User and Improve Security

[ Thanks to Tom
Adelstein
for this link. ]

“Employee turnover in most organizations runs high. So unless
you run a small shop with a stable user base, you need to learn how
to clean up after an employee leaves. Too many so-called system
administrators do not understand the stakes involved when they
manage users. Disgruntled former employees can often cause
significant trouble for a company by gaining access to the
network.

“To remove a user, you need to learn to manage all of his or her
files, mailboxes, mail aliases, print jobs, recurring –(automatic)
personal processes such as the backing up of data or remote syncing
of directories, and other references to the user…”


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