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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Scripting User Account Removal Post 302583397 by panacea on Tuesday 20th of December 2011 10:37:51 AM

12-20-2011

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Scripting User Account Removal

Ok, so I've been looking all over the place for how exactly to do this and I've become so bombarded with information I finally decided I'll pose the question here. I'm not a programmer or anything that hardcore, but if I see things already implemented and working examples I can easily learn and modify them to suit my needs. That being said I have been trying to find the step by step or close to for creating a couple login/logout hooks. And now I'm also reading I should create a launchd job instead and am just beginning to look into that option since it's more secure.

I'm in a mixed 10.6 / 10.7 environment with all moving to 10.7 hopefully soon here in a university environment and manage all the workstations we have in our building. Users log in with their AD accounts and user folders are created locally and pulled from the default new user template that I've modified to suit our environment.

The two (or maybe one?) scripts I need are to do a couple things then. First, I'd like to erase each user account on logout so the user folders don't pile up in the User directory. And then second, I'm thinking I'll also need a login script to put my Admin account folder back each time from a template or something as it too will get erased from the logout script.

Thanks for any help in advance.

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newgrp

NEWGRP(1)                                                          User Commands                                                         NEWGRP(1)

NAME

       newgrp - log in to a new group

SYNOPSIS

       newgrp [-] [group]

DESCRIPTION

       The newgrp command is used to change the current group ID during a login session. If the optional - flag is given, the user's environment
       will be reinitialized as though the user had logged in, otherwise the current environment, including current working directory, remains
       unchanged.

       newgrp changes the current real group ID to the named group, or to the default group listed in /etc/passwd if no group name is given.
       newgrp also tries to add the group to the user groupset. If not root, the user will be prompted for a password if she does not have a
       password (in /etc/shadow if this user has an entry in the shadowed password file, or in /etc/passwd otherwise) and the group does, or if
       the user is not listed as a member and the group has a password. The user will be denied access if the group password is empty and the user
       is not listed as a member.

       If there is an entry for this group in /etc/gshadow, then the list of members and the password of this group will be taken from this file,
       otherwise, the entry in /etc/group is considered.

CONFIGURATION

       The following configuration variables in /etc/login.defs change the behavior of this tool:

       SYSLOG_SG_ENAB (boolean)
           Enable "syslog" logging of sg activity.

FILES

       /etc/passwd
           User account information.

       /etc/shadow
           Secure user account information.

       /etc/group
           Group account information.

       /etc/gshadow
           Secure group account information.

SEE ALSO

       id(1), login(1), su(1), sg(1), gpasswd(1), group(5), gshadow(5).

shadow-utils 4.5                                                    01/25/2018                                                           NEWGRP(1)