Changing user type from ARD and Unix command

I am now in charge of a Mac network encompassing many different machines, running a mix between Tiger and Leopard. I have them on ARD and would like to batch "demote" every user except my admin account on each machine to standard user privileges. What would be the command I need to send through to do this en masse?

You could run a dscl command on the 10.5 machines. Maybe run it within a shell script that searches in the /Users folder and returns each folder name (user name). But, again this would only work on the 10.5 machines with the new directory services.

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