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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Scripting User Account Removal Post 302603587 by panacea on Thursday 1st of March 2012 12:06:26 PM

03-01-2012

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Ok, I've got the script in place, and the write command set, but I think the code had an error in it?

Code:

# 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

I put a closing " after the first if [ "$? -eq 0 and now it runs properly. Hehehe, however, it didn't see my admin user as an admin and wiped that out. When I use the substituted line that specifies the user it then works properly.

Totally awesome. Thank you so so much for the help.

Now, is there a way to put a time stamp on that? So say I want to delete the user folder after a period of 24hrs. So if a user doesn't come on that machine for 24 hrs then it gets wiped, but if they happen to come and use that same machine within the specified time period, it skips it.

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NAME

       asadmin-list-admin-objects, list-admin-objects - gets all the administered objects

SYNOPSIS

       list-admin-objects  --user  admin_user [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile filename]
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OPTIONS

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