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+# Admin tools 
+
+There's a set of tools to ease system administration.  These tools can be found in the poorly named repo [makeuser](https://tildegit.org/thunix/makeuser).
+
+- makeuser: adds a user to our system
+
+```makeuser {username} {email address} {ssh key}```
+
+- rmuser: Removes user account, terminates processes, archives home directory
+
+```rmuser {username}```
+
+- makedb: Creates a db for a user, and emails the credentials and connection info to their thunix email address.
+
+```makedb {username}```
+
+- dbremove : Removes a db created by a user, after generating an mysqldump of it
+
+```dbremove {username}```