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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Scripting User Account Removal Post 302584299 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Thursday 22nd of December 2011 05:49:23 PM

12-22-2011

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step one: get the currently logged in user name.
If it were a loginhook, $1 would work. I've found that problematic for logouthooks, so I use $USER.

step two: verify they aren't admin, or aren't you.
You could test the result of
dscl . -read /Groups/admin GroupMembership | grep "$USER"
If $? (the exit code) equals 0 then leave the logouthook script with "exit 1"
otherwise...

step three: remove the user account
dscl . -delete /Users/$USER

step four: remove the user's home folder
rm -R /Users/$USER

# If user is an admin, exit script
dscl . -read /Groups/admin GroupMembership | grep -q "$USER"
if [ "$? -eq 0 ]; then
# the next line could be substituted for the previous 2 lines
#if [ $USER = "adminuser1" ] || [ $USER = "adminuser2" ] || [ $USER = "adminuser3" ]; then
echo "LOGOUT: admin folders will not be deleted."
exit 1
fi

# If home directory exists, delete
if [ -d "/Users/$USER" ]; then
echo "LOGOUT: user account cleanup."
rm -R /Users/"$USER"
dscl . -delete /Users/"$USER"
fi
exit 0

That should do it. I use a similar script and it works fine except for forced reboot scenarios, but that's what lab admins, and periodic reimaging is for. Smilie

This is fairly rudimentary scripting. Feel free to use awk, case statements, and for loops to your hearts content. Smilie

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drop_user_mapping

DROP USER 
MAPPING(7)						   SQL Commands 					      DROP USER MAPPING(7)

NAME

       DROP USER MAPPING - remove a user mapping for a foreign server

SYNOPSIS

       DROP USER MAPPING [ IF EXISTS ] FOR { username | USER | CURRENT_USER | PUBLIC } SERVER servername

DESCRIPTION

       DROP USER MAPPING removes an existing user mapping from foreign server.

       The  owner  of  a foreign server can drop user mappings for that server for any user. Also, a user can drop a user mapping for his own user
       name if USAGE privilege on the server has been granted to the user.

PARAMETERS

       IF EXISTS
	      Do not throw an error if the user mapping does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.

       username
	      User name of the mapping. CURRENT_USER and USER match the name of the current user. PUBLIC is used to match all present  and  future
	      user names in the system.

       servername
	      Server name of the user mapping.

EXAMPLES

       Drop a user mapping bob, server foo if it exists:

       DROP USER MAPPING IF EXISTS FOR bob SERVER foo;

COMPATIBILITY

       DROP USER MAPPING conforms to ISO/IEC 9075-9 (SQL/MED). The IF EXISTS clause is a PostgreSQL extension.

SEE ALSO

       CREATE USER MAPPING [create_user_mapping(7)], ALTER USER MAPPING [alter_user_mapping(7)]

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