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    I have about 200 students set up on my server with home directories that I need to remove. What is the easiest way of doing this. If I simply delete the user, the home directory will stay and I will then need to take ownership of it and delete it. Is there an easier one step way of doing this?
    Thanks for any help, my NT skills are kind of slipping, since I only do this once a year.

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    If you login as supervisor/administrator user, you should be able to delete them all in one command. You don't need to own it to delete it.

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    When I log on as administrator, I can delete the user in User Manager for domains, but there home directory is still there. When I try to delete to dir. I dont have access to it, so I need to add myself to the permission ar take ownership of it in order to delete it.

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    i would have thought that u could have minimal permissions whilst settting up the directory so that u could delete it later on, even if its not ur directory,

    not meaning to sound snotty,
    just i always give myself write permissions whilst creating new directorys on our servers so i can delete it if needed

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