Multiple Users Deletion Through Scripts

[Ajin_1]

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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[Dennis Handly]

>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

   fi

   # check home directory

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

      echo "User $user has no home directory"

   fi

   # check crontab

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

   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

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

   fi

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

      echo "User $user has a crontab"

   fi
   # ...

done