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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to delete users in the servers Post 302930769 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 7th of January 2015 06:28:31 AM
Old 01-07-2015
If you can submit remote commands in with ssh or remsh/resh/rsh, then you you set up a double loop, a bit like this:-
Code:
for server in $server_list
do
   ssh $server "for userid in $user_list
      do
         userdel $user_list
      done"
done

This is entirely untested and just theoretical, but as a structure it might give you something to work with. You would be sensible to add error checking and some sort of response/logging so that you can verify the actions afterwards. If the command is different on different servers, you will have to handle that somehow.

Of course, the server that you choose to run this loop would need to be able to get through the firewall to each server listed, but I hope that this gives you something to work with. Have a go and let us know if you get stuck.

If you want to do a dummy run, then perhaps change the remote command to run to something like this:-
Code:
userdel ; for userid in $user_list
      do
         echo userdel $user_list
      done

The extra userdel will ensure you can see the command in your path (and give the usage statement)
The echo will then show you what commands it would try to issue.


I hope that this helps,
Robin
 

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