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> What have other sites done to help their administrator(s) keep track of
> what "kinds" of users are authorized on the system?  -mod]

Well, Kyle Jones <kyle@odu.edu> wrote a wonderful program called
"mcp", which has been posted in comp.sources.unix.  For keeping track
of "kinds" of users, it uses groups in conjunction with "vigs",
"sigs", and "classes".  A "vig", a Very Important Group, is one where
membership in the group suffices to account for the user.  Examples
here are "staff" and "faculty".  Special Interest Groups and Classes
are, essentially, identical:

sig - an mcp abstraction with the following attributes:

    o   Name
    o   Expiration date (optional)
    o   Description

   Sigs are created using add-sig and users may  be  subsequently
   added  to  them  via  add-to-sig.   Sigs are not automatically
   deleted when they expire.  However  the  system  administrator
   can use mcp -c to report any expired sigs.

Users who are not in a vig, a sig, or a class are considered
"deadbeats".  There's lots more to it - take a look at the program.
We hardly even look at the passwd, group, and aliases files any
more....

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