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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to delete users in the servers Post 302930384 by muraliinfy04 on Friday 2nd of January 2015 09:06:55 PM
Old 01-02-2015
Hi thanks for your reply.Here is my response.
@Sea:
  1. All the 10 users are same in all the servers.But there could be chances that in few servers the users may not exist.As these are different environments(eg:prod, dev etc)
  2. As per the security compliance of the client(only few clients) we need to login as normal user and then sudo to root.Then we need to work as root.This is only for few clients.Rest of the clients we can directly login as root.
  3. Sudo is installed and available.
  4. As now a days we are getting this activity frequently I just want to automate it.We can login as root and delete users if it is single server.Here we have multiple servers.Logging into each server and deleting users will be time consuming.
  5. Those 10 users have already left organisation.They are inactive users so we can delete them.

@rbatte1:
  1. yes all the accounts are local accounts.
  2. I have tried to delete users manually login to the servers. As it appears to be time consuming I just thought of automating it.
  3. As I have tried manually I did not get any errors.
  4. preferred tool is shell/perl
  5. I have verified that users are inactive and they are not logged in recently.We generally use userdel command and comment out entries in /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow if user details exists.We will take backup of these two files before editing them.
  6. No firewall restrictions imposed.we can connect servers as we want which are in same environment(ex:prod as one environment,Development as one environment)
  7. yes. Servers are trusted.We can use ssh and rlogin.

Thanks again for your replies.
Last edited by rbatte1; 01-05-2015 at 06:19 AM.. Reason: Remove extraneous ICODE tags, turn off smilies (Don Cragun) Added LIST=1 tags (rbatte1)
 

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bssh/bvnc/bshell(1)					      General Commands Manual					       bssh/bvnc/bshell(1)

NAME

       bssh/bvnc/bshell - Browse for SSH/VNC servers on the local network

SYNOPSIS

       bssh

       bvnc

       bshell

DESCRIPTION

       bssh/bvnc/bshell  browses  for  SSH/VNC	servers  on  the  local  network, shows them in a GUI for the user to select one and finally calls
       ssh/vncviewer after a selection was made.

       If the binary is called as bssh only ssh servers will be shown. If the binary is called as bvnc only VNC servers  will  be  shown.  If  the
       binary is called as bshell both VNC and SSH servers are shown.

OPTIONS

       -s | --ssh
	      Browse for SSH servers (and only SSH servers) regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -v | --vnc
	      Browse for VNC servers (and only VNC servers) regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -S | --shell
	      Browse for both VNC and SSH servers regardless under which name the binary is called.

       -d | --domain= DOMAIN
	      Browse in the specified domain. If omitted bssh/bvnc/bshell will browse in the default browsing domain (usually .local)

       -h | --help
	      Show help.

AUTHORS

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SEE ALSO

       avahi-browse(1), ssh(1), vncviewer(1)

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