Doing some cleanup

Every once in a while it's nice to try and take out the trash. I did some fiddling around with some custom scripts and got a list of trustee assignments on the cluster and cross-checked them with our user groups to find groups that do not have any direct trustees assigned anywhere on the cluster. It was a sizeable list, about 30% of the groups in the groups context aren't there to manage file access (any more).

I then ran another one to give me a list of empty groups. There was some congruence between the two lists, but not as much as I thought. Unless the group was there for a documented reason, allows student workers to print to a departmental print-object kind of thing, if it had no trustees, was empty, and otherwse seemed ignored, it got tossed.

Some of these groups had comments in them about what they gave access to. I like that! It allowed to delete the serious looking group that gave access to a directory on a server that's been dead for 6 years and has no modern equivalent.

Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of groups that I can't determine if they're still good. That'll have to be done by the desktop folk who create most of the groups. While I have hopes, I do not have high hopes that it'll get done.