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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Finding user accounts not accessed for a specific number of days Post 302556157 by admin_xor on Saturday 17th of September 2011 04:13:08 PM
Old 09-17-2011
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Thank you all for your reply. This weekend I'm planning to sit tight and write a script for this. Once done, I'll post that here and would love to get your reviews. Smilie

---------- Post updated 09-17-11 at 04:13 PM ---------- Previous update was 09-16-11 at 07:45 PM ----------

Well thanks for your input guys. Here is the bash script I have written for our Linux and Solaris servers. It's almost similar to the ksh script I wrote for the same purpose on AIX servers. The difference is with AIX's lsuser command, it was easy for me to get user details.

Review the code and let me know your thoughts Smilie
Code:
#!/bin/bash

# this script searches for the user ids which have not been used for a specific
# number of days


# the number of days to be monitored
expdays=30
expiry=$(( 86400*$expdays ))

LOG1=/tmp/inactive_usr_$expdays_days.$( date '+%m-%d-%Y' ).log
LOG2=/tmp/never_logged_usrs.$( date '+%m-%d-%Y' ).log
tmp1=/tmp/tmp1.log.$$

# list out the accounts which can be used to log in to the server

cat /etc/passwd | grep -Ev ^"root|daemon|nobody|adm|sys" | cut -d ":" -f1 >>$tmp1

# date and time calculation with respect to unix epoch

year=$( date +%Y )

today=$( date +%s )

# now, for each of the user listed above, run a check if the last logged in time exceedes the specified number of days.

cat $tmp1 | while read usr; do
        umnt=$( last -1 $usr | head -1 | awk '{ print $5 }' )
        uday=$( last -1 $usr | head -1 | awk '{ print $6 }' )
        uhour=$( last -1 $usr | head -1 | awk '{ print $7 }' | cut -d ":" -f1 )
        umin=$( last -1 $usr | head -1 | awk '{ print $7 }' | cut -d ":" -f2 )

        # the below line checks and stores the IDs which were never used
        if [ ! $uday ] || [ ! $uhour ] || [ ! $umin ]; then
            echo "$usr:__NeveR__" >>$LOG2
        else
            llogin=$( date +%s -d"$umnt $uday, $year $uhour:$umin:01" )
            mini=$(( $today-$llogin ))
            if [[ $mini -gt $expiry ]]; then
                login=$(( ($today-$llogin)/86400 ))
                echo "$usr:$login" >>$LOG1
            fi
        fi
done

rm -f $tmp1

 

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FAXCRON(8)						      System Manager's Manual							FAXCRON(8)

NAME
faxcron - HylaFAX routine maintenance script SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/faxcron [ -n ] [ -l lastrun ] DESCRIPTION
faxcron is a command script that does routine upkeep tasks in a HylaFAX spooling directory hierarchy. This script is intended to be invoked from cron(8) on behalf of the fax user (often the ``fax'' user is uucp) once a day, with the standard output sent by mail to the HylaFAX administrator. For example, the following crontab might be set up for the fax user: 25 23 * * * sh /usr/sbin/faxcron | mail FaxMaster The faxcron script does the following work: o report statistics for facsimile transmitted since the last time faxcron was run. o report statistics for facsimile transmitted in the past week. o report statistics for facsimile received since the last time faxcron was run. o report statistics for facsimile received in the past week. o report any recent calls that failed suspiciously and return the associated trace log; o purge data that is 30 days or older from the remote machine information directory; o delete information that is 30 days or older from session trace log files; o remove files from the tmp directory that are older than 1 day; o remove files in the received facsimile queue that are 7 days or older; o report sites that are currently having jobs rejected; and o force all session log files to be owned by the fax user and kept with protection mode 644. OPTIONS
-n Forces faxcron to run without updating any files. -l lastrun Forces the notion of the last time that faxcron was run to be lastrun. The value of lastrun is a date and time string of the form ``MM/DD/YY HH:MM'' (the date(1) format string ``%D %H:%M''). -info n Set the expiration time for data in the info database to be n days. -log n Set the expiration time for session log data to be n days. -rcv n Set the expiration time for files in the received facsimile queue to be n days. -tmp n Set the expiration time for files in the tmp directory to be n days. -mode m Set the file protection mode for session logs to m (a command line argument to chmod(1)). NOTES
This script requires nawk(1) or gawk(1) and a date (1) program that supports the ``+format'' option. If session logs are to be kept private this script must be modified to filter out sensitive information such as calling card numbers. (It should also be run with ``-mode 0600'' so that session log files are not publicly readable.) FILES
/var/spool/hylafax spooling area /var/spool/hylafax/status/lastrun timestamp of last run /usr/sbin/xferfaxstats for generating transmit statistics /usr/sbin/recvstats for generating receive statistics /var/spool/hylafax/tmp/faxcronXXXX temporary file for truncating session logs /var/spool/hylafax/tmp/faxlogXXXX temporary file for logs of failed calls SEE ALSO
cron(8), faxq(8), faxgetty(8), faxsend(8), xferfaxstats(8), recvstats(8), hylafax-server(5) May 12, 1996 FAXCRON(8)
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