I want to do a search for users on my solaris boxes that have been inactive for a defined number of days and then delete them.
Any ideas how to determine or calculate the number of days (possibly using the /var/adm/wtmpx file) from the user's last login to the current date of search.
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Hello,
I have to backup users from one server and put them on another server. I have tried cp -pr, copied over the passwd, group, shadow and appended the users from the old server to the new servers files, rebooted and still can't login. The server accepts that new accounts are there but not... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a Sun M4000 with 1 Global and 4 non-global zones running Solaris. the downtime to apply the latest Recommend Patch Cluster is about 8hrs. The client will not give me the downtime.
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Hi,
Can I get a script to list out all the users, who has not logged on since last 90 days. Last command in not working due due to /var/adm/wtmpx is more than 2 GB.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Roni (10 Replies)
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I would like to automatically logout from the system inactive users depending on their functions.
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usermod(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation usermod(3pm)NAME
Linux::usermod - modify user and group accounts
SYNOPSIS
use Linux::usermod;
$user = Linux::usermod->new(username);
$grp = Linux::usermod->new(groupname, 1);
$user->get(gid); # equal to $user->get(3);
$user->get(uid); # equal to $user->get(2);
$grp->get(gid); # equal to $user->get(2);
$grp->get(users);# equal to $user->get(3);
#lock and unlock user account
$user->lock();
$user->unlock();
#get password(passwd file)
$user->get(ppassword);
#get encoded password(shadow file)
$user->get(password);
#set encoded password
$user->set(password);
$grp->set(password);
#set shell / group administrator
$user->set(shell);
$grp->set(ga);
#set group users
@users = qw(user1 user2);
$grp->set(users, "@users");
Linux::usermod->add(username);
#or
Linux::usermod->add(username, password, uid, gid, comment, home, shell);
#where the password goes in shadow file and gid becomes
#equal to uid unless specified and uid is becoming the
#first unreserved number after 1000 unless specified
#or
@users = qw(user1 user2 user3);
Linux::usermod->grpadd(groupname, gid, "@users")
#where the password goes in gshadow file and gid becomes
#equal to the second argument or the first unreserved number
#after 100
#delete user/group
Linux::usermod->del(username);
Linux::usermod->grpdel(groupname);
#all fields are returned from the class methods fields/gfields
print $user->get($_) for (Linux::usermod->fields);
print $grp->get($_) for (Linux::usermod->gfields);
#set working passwd and shadow files
#$Linux::usermod::file_passwd = "./my_passwd";
#$Linux::usermod::file_shadow = "./my_shadow";
#$Linux::usermod::file_group = "./my_group";
#$Linux::usermod::file_gshadow= "./my_gshadow";
DESCRIPTION
This module adds, removes and modify user and group accounts according to the passwd and shadow files syntax (like struct passwd from
pwd.h). It is not necessary those accounts to be system as long as $Linux::usermod::file_passwd, $Linux::usermod::file_shadow,
$Linux::usermod::file_group, $Linux::usermod::file_gshadow are not in "/etc" directory.
METHODS
new
Linux::usermod->new(username)
Linux::usermod->new(grpname, 1)
If group object second 'true' argument must be given
add (username, ...) Class method - add new user account; arguments are optional, except username; they may be (username, password,
uid, gid, comment, home, shell)
del (username) Class method - removes user account
tobsd converts user fields in shadow / master.passwd file to bsd style
get if used with user object returns one of the following fields:
'name' or 0 The user's name
'ppassword' or 1 The "passwd" file password
'uid' or 2 The user's id
'gid' or 3 The user's group id
'comment' or 4 The comment about the user (real username)
'home' or 5 The user's home directory
'shell' or 6 The user's shell
'sname' or 7 The user's name in shadow file
'password' or 8 The 13-character encoded password
'lastchg' or 9 The number of days since January 1, 1970 of the last password changed date
'min' or 10 The minimum number of days required between password changes
'max' or 11 The maximum number of days the password is valid
'warn' or 12 The number of days before expiring the password that the user is warned
'inactive' or 13 The number of days of inactivity allowed for the user
'expire' or 14 The number of days since January 1, 1970 that account is disabled
'flag' or 15 Currently not used
if used with group object returns one of the following fields:
'name' or 0 The group name
'ppassword' or 1 The group password
'gid' or 2 The group id number
'users' or 3 The group members (users)
'sname' or 4 The group name in gshadow file (the same as 'name')
'password' or 5 The encrypted group password
'ga' or 6 The group administrators
'gu' or 7 The group members (users) (the same as 'users')
argument can be either string or number
set (field)
set a field which must be string of characters:
@user_fields = Linux::usermod->fields; #user fields
@group_fields = Linux::usermod->gfields; #group fields
grpadd (groupname)
grpdel (groupname)
lock (username) Lock user account (puts '!' at the beginning of the encoded password)
unlock (username) Unlock user account (removes '!' from the beginning of the encoded password)
users Class method - return hash which keys are all users, taken from $file_passwd
grps Class method - return hash which keys are all groups, taken from $file_group
FILES
/etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/gshadow
unless given your own passwd, shadow, group, gshadow files which must be created
TO DO
Groups and user accounts consistency checks
SEE ALSO getpwent(3), getpwnam(3), usermod(8), passwd(1), gpasswd(1)BUGS
None known. Report any to author.
AUTHOR
Vidul Petrov, vidul@abv.bg
(C) 2004 Vidul Petrov. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.8 2008-01-11 usermod(3pm)