Multiple Users Deletion Through Scripts

Ajin_1 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:37:11 GMT

Hi Experts

I have a list of users to be deleted in a Server.
I have the file having the list of user list (For eg./tmp/userlist)
My requirement was the script that delete all the users in the specified file .
before that it will check the below points

weather the user in the list exixt or not
Home dir for that user found or not
any cron jobs shedule for the user

I also include the sample commands for that

grep xyz /etc/group
grep xyz /etc/passwd the user must there else exit and print user not found.
ls -ld /home/xyz..
grep xyz /var/adm/cron/cron.allow
ll /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ | grep xyz
crontab -l | grep /home/xyz

Thanks in Advance.

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Re: Multiple Users Deletion Through Scripts

Dennis Handly — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:17:05 GMT

>My requirement was the script that delete all the users in the specified file .

A skeleton script would be:

for user in $(< /tmp/userlist); do

# Check existence

id $user > /dev/null 2>&1

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

echo "User $user not found"

continue

# check home directory

if [ ! -d $(eval echo ~$user) ]; then

echo "User $user has no home directory"

# check crontab

fgrep -q -x $user /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

echo "User $user in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow"

if [ -f /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$user ]; then

echo "User $user has a crontab"

fi
# ...

done

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