topic Re: User account removal in Operating System - HP-UX

User account removal

tap — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:10:30 GMT

Hi all,
What is the quickest way to remove user account from multiple servers at a same time? We create account on trusted server and then push it to all the other server some time there are over thirty or forty servers the new account is pushed to, but when comes time to remove the accounts I have to go on each server to remove them.
That take ages any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated

Re: User account removal

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:35:13 GMT

Shalom,

ssh-keygen -t dsa for root on the master server.

This will create a file called .ssh/id_dsa.pub

This file needs to be distributed to each server as .ssh/authorized_keys or added to the existing authorized keys file.

Secure Shell form HP-UX must be installed. http://software.hp.com

make a list of servers called list

while read -r server
do
ssh $server userdel $user
done < list

This will do it all without prompting for passwords.

A better option would be doing authentication via LDAP or NIS.

SEP

Re: User account removal

tap — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:02:21 GMT

It worked
thx Steven

Re: User account removal

tap — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:05:00 GMT

Points awarded