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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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drop_user

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

NAME

       DROP USER - remove a database user account

SYNOPSIS

       DROP USER name

DESCRIPTION

       DROP  USER removes the specified user from the database.  It does not remove tables, views, or other objects owned by the user. If the user
       owns any database, an error is raised.

   PARAMETERS
       name   The name of an existing user.

DIAGNOSTICS

       DROP USER
	      The message returned if the user is successfully deleted.

       ERROR: DROP USER: user "name" does not exist
	      This message occurs if the user name is not found.

       DROP USER: user "name" owns database "name", cannot be removed
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NOTES

       Use CREATE USER [create_user(7)] to add new users, and ALTER USER [alter_user(7)] to change a user's  attributes.   PostgreSQL  includes  a
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EXAMPLES

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COMPATIBILITY

       The DROP USER statement is a PostgreSQL extension. The SQL standard leaves the definition of users to the implementation.

SEE ALSO

       CREATE USER [create_user(7)], ALTER USER [alter_user(l)], dropuser(1)

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