Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:31:54 GMT From: gestur@islandia.is (Gestur A. Grjetarsson) To: Joe Beiter <jwb@xioa.cosmic.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: deluser Message-ID: <199601160631.GAA11793@hummer.islandia.is>
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>I saw this was brought up a couple of times in the mail list archives but
>I couldn't seem to find the program. I need a program that will remove a
>specified user from the system (passwd entry, home directory and mailbox).
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>I'm presently trying to hack vipw to do it but since I'm not much of a c
>programmer this is both difficult and dangerous. If it already exists I'd
>be overjoyed to find it :)
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>Its the only thing presently keeping me from migrating our systems over from
>linux to freebsd. The adding and deleting of accounts is handled by
>administrative personnel that would not do well with the passwd file in an
>editor.
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Try make new script used for erasing accounts in /usr/bin
like thisone:
/usr/bin/closeaccount
begin script:
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#!/bin/sh
rm -r /usr/home/$1
rm /var/mail/$1
rm /var/mail/.$1.pop
vipw
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end script
chmod 700 /usr/bin/closeaccount
the command would be "closeaccount user", where the script would take
user assigned for $1 in the script.
where in vipw, you find the user password like and erase it from there.
the script should be finished erasing the user from your user dir when
you finish the vipw edit.
Međ kveđju,
Sincerely,
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Gestur A. Grjetarsson
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Islandia, Grensásvegur 7, 2h.t.h., 108 Reykjavik
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http://www.islandia.is
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