<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>UserManagement</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2013-01-11 08:44:18</date><authorinitials>ClintonEbadi</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2013-01-11 08:43:42</date><authorinitials>ClintonEbadi</authorinitials><revremark>it was out of date, so make it not out of date and vaguely informative</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2012-03-25 05:36:25</date><authorinitials>ClintonEbadi</authorinitials><revremark>this is incredibly out of date</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2011-04-22 22:59:25</date><authorinitials>ClintonEbadi</authorinitials><revremark>Revert to revision 6.</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2011-04-21 17:22:56</date><authorinitials>ip-209-172-62-86.static.privatedns.com</authorinitials><revremark>vpVDMc  &lt;a href=&quot;http://hodlaqtlsylo.com/&quot;&gt;hodlaqtlsylo&lt;/a&gt;</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2011-04-21 06:10:38</date><authorinitials>173-12-50-101-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net</authorinitials><revremark>DbUBBD You're the gretesat! JMHO</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2011-04-21 05:50:17</date><authorinitials>ClintonEbadi</authorinitials><revremark>Revert to revision 4.</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2011-04-21 01:48:50</date><authorinitials>unassigned.psychz.net</authorinitials><revremark>HHIS I should have tohught of that!</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2008-07-07 04:27:55</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2005-08-14 02:25:49</date><authorinitials>DavorOcelic</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2005-08-14 02:24:48</date><authorinitials>DavorOcelic</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2005-08-14 02:24:33</date><authorinitials>DavorOcelic</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><para>We use a few custom scripts for managing users. </para><para>See <ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/UserManagement/AuthenticationScheme#">AuthenticationScheme</ulink> for background information. </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para><code>create-user $USER</code> creates a new &quot;real&quot; user (human being) </para></listitem><listitem><para><code>create-service-user $USER</code> creates a new shared service user. Also see <ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/UserManagement/PrincipalsForNonHumans#">PrincipalsForNonHumans</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><code>freeze</code> for freezing members that will have a negative balance soon (see <ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/UserManagement/MemberFreezing#">MemberFreezing</ulink>) </para></listitem><listitem><para><code>destroy-user $USER</code> deactivates the user account, saving their volume for a later purge (or reactivation if they rejoin quickly) </para></listitem></itemizedlist><!--rule (<hr>) is not applicable to DocBook--><para> <ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/UserManagement/CategorySystemAdministration#">CategorySystemAdministration</ulink> <ulink url="https://wiki.hcoop.net/UserManagement/CategoryNeedsWork#">CategoryNeedsWork</ulink> </para></article>