From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 10:20:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26128 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:20:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26123 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:20:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA12426; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:17:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601091817.LAA12426@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Interested in a 'deleteuser'? To: wsantee@wsantee.oz.net (Wes Santee) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:17:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601090749.XAA05491@wsantee.oz.net> from "Wes Santee" at Jan 8, 96 11:49:05 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-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I know at periodic intervals the question of "Is there a deleteuser > counterpart to adduser available" comes up. > > If nothing ever surfaced, I've written a perl script called just > that that will pack a users mail/homedir/password entry/group > entries up into a tarball for archiving purposes and delete them > from the system. Would people still be interested in something like > this? Let me know and if there is enough interest I'll u/l it to > the FreeBSD ftp site. I'd post it here but its ~20K. Mike Mayberry (mikem@cs.weber.edu) has an academic machine setup so that idle accounts are automatically tarred up and compressed after a period of inactivity. If the user logs on after this has happened, the account is automatically reexploded. The only less-than-perfect attribute of this is that the user is logged out after the reexplode and must log back in. Not a terrific hardship, I think. Mike also has automatic account generation from student information for students who are to have an account for a course. I believe it sets up per course environments for the student creating the account this way (it uses a key list so that students can't just randomly hack themselves accounts). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.