On 8/7/06 7:41 PM, "Dan Shoop" <email@hidden> wrote:
At 12:07 PM -0400 8/7/06, Adam Gerson wrote:
We have to delete about 100 users from our directory of around
1000. I need
to delete the OD user records as well as the home folders. Given
a text file
with short names does anyone have a script that could accomplish
this task?
Deleting users of a system is generally not recommended.
POSIX permissions are based on UID/GID and a recycled UID or GID can
lead to security issues. Any user anywhere could have file(s)
permitting the current UID/GID owners to access files.
Instead consider disabling dead accounts rather than removing the
account. Then remove *all* files owned by them *everywhere*, not just
in /their/ HOMEs.
I think you make a good point. However, we are a school so every
year we
have about 100 students leave and another 100 new users. After time
doesn't
this practice of just disabling accounts create a lot of clutter and
unnecessary data?
Using Passenger I can ensure that new accounts are created with
unused UIDs.
I could even write my own if I knew the command line code for
deleting a
user account.
Did you read the Command Line docs.
I did, they provide an example using dscl in interactive mode. Can
I use
interactive mode from within a script? I am looking for an example
I can
execute in a single line inside a loop within a script.
Removing the accounts is pretty easy if you feed dsimport a user
import file but run it backwards via the -DELETE flag. Then it will
use the import file as a kill list.
But do look at what the other posters in this thread have said.
