From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 27 15:28:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA23365 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 15:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA23311 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 15:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA09320; Mon, 27 May 1996 15:26:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605272226.PAA09320@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Anyone want a 'usercrunch' utility ? To: regnauld@tetard.hsc.fr (Philippe Regnauld) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 15:26:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605271650.SAA00466@tetard.hsc.fr> from "Philippe Regnauld" at May 27, 96 06:50:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Following recent discussions concerning 'adduser', is anybody > interested in a 'userpack' or 'usercrunch' utility ? It would be > run periodically by cron, and check the last login of each user. > If the elapsed time exceeds a specified number of days, the user's > home directory is packed away (tar cvfz) and rm -r'ed. At the same > time, his login shell is replaced by the unpack script which would > recreate his home directory on the fly. There could of course > be a -nobackup option :-) > > PS: this would be perl4 :-)) If you have not built one already, contact mikem@cs.weber.edu; he has auto-decrunch, and so on, for automatic account reactivation, as well as new user-from-list validation and account creation. I've been on him to move the stuff over from Solaris/SunOS/Ultrix/SGI/NeXT where he has had it running for some time. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.