On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Dan O'Donnell wrote:
> Is there a way in ARD 2 to tell it to look for this account in all
> machines and delete the account on all, all at once?
Would disabling the account be enough?
Here's a really silly way to do that. (Several steps here could be
skipped or shortened, but my OSX Unix books are at home so I'm making
this up as I go along):
* find out the user id that you want to remove
$ INACTIVE=gkaplan
$ nidump passwd . | grep $INACTIVE | sed 's#:# #g' | awk '{print $3}'
742
$ IN_UID=`nidump passwd . | grep $INACTIVE | sed 's#:# #g' | awk '{print $3}'`
* set that uid to have '*' as the password
$ niutil -createprop . /users/uid=$IN_UID passwd '*'
The last command will disable, but not delete, the account.
You may have to run it as an admin using `sudo` priviliges:
$ sudo niutil -createprop . /users/uid=$IN_UID passwd '*'
A bit of tinkering and you can automate this as a script that will run
on all machines. Look up the man pages, search Google for "niutil", or
get a copy of _Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks_:
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mpantherunix/>
--
Chris Devers
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