New User Setup

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  • Check to ensure there are no namespace collisions with mail-aliases, mailing lists, or group names
  • Create Kerebros principal and password
  • Create LDAP posixGroup under ou=Group and assign UID
  • Create LDAP inetOrgPerson under ou=Person and assign UID
  • Create AFS user (make sure AFS UID synced to LDAP UID)
  • Create AFS volumes <username> and <username>.mail owned by user
  • Mount AFS volume <username> under /afs/.ugcs/user/<username> and <username.mail> under /afs/.ugcs/user/<username>/Maildir
  • Set ACL's appropriately
  • Copy user data from /etc/skel
  • Add user to user groups

need to write script to do all this

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