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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Scripting User Account Removal Post 302603979 by panacea on Friday 2nd of March 2012 12:57:53 PM

03-02-2012

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Kurt made me chuckle

Hehe, the nirvana comment had me loling.

Ok, so the string:

Code:

find /Users \( \! -name Users -and \! -name .localized -and \! -name Shared -and \! -name $USER \) -maxdepth 1 \! -mtime -1d -exec rm -R {} \;

I'm trying to understand, actually if you can recommend a great book that describes all this stuff I'd love to know of it. Like I said, I can usually pick apart and fix stuff that already exists, but making my own is beyond me.

So if I wanted to implement that line to find and remove anything after 1 day would it look like this?

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Logout script to remove nonadmin accounts from Users folder
# If user is an admin, exit script 
if [ $USER = "JoeUser" ]; then
echo "LOGOUT: admin folders will not be deleted."
exit 1
fi 

# If home directory exists, delete 
find /Users \( \! -name JoeUser -and \! -name .localized -and \! -name Shared -and \! -name $USER \) -maxdepth 1 \! -mtime -1d -exec rm -R {} \;
dscl . -delete /Users/"$USER"
fi 
exit 0

So then that would make it skip the user "JoeUser", and the "Shared" folder?

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drop_user_mapping

DROP USER 
MAPPING(7)					  PostgreSQL 9.2.7 Documentation				      DROP USER MAPPING(7)

NAME

       DROP_USER_MAPPING - remove a user mapping for a foreign server

SYNOPSIS

       DROP USER MAPPING [ IF EXISTS ] FOR { user_name | USER | CURRENT_USER | PUBLIC } SERVER server_name

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.

       user_name
	   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.

       server_name
	   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))

PostgreSQL 9.2.7						    2014-02-17						      DROP USER MAPPING(7)