RE: Deleting local accounts

2010-03-17 Thread Justin Lloyd
-boun...@cfengine.org Subject: Re: Deleting local accounts Don't forget cron/at jobs, spool files, mail etc... nwat...@symcor.com wrote: > I agree with Matt. It is worthy goal but probably much bigger than you > realize. > >> be a great candidate for the COPBL or at least a Cf

Re: Deleting local accounts

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Burgess
Don't forget cron/at jobs, spool files, mail etc... nwat...@symcor.com wrote: > I agree with Matt. It is worthy goal but probably much bigger than you > realize. > >> be a great candidate for the COPBL or at least a Cfengine cookbook like >> Neil's. Hmm, I sense an O'reilly book here... :) >

Re: Deleting local accounts

2010-03-17 Thread NWatson
I agree with Matt. It is worthy goal but probably much bigger than you realize. > be a great candidate for the COPBL or at least a Cfengine cookbook like > Neil's. Hmm, I sense an O'reilly book here... :) I can neither confirm nor deny this ;) Sincerely, -- Neil Watson 416-673-3465 CONFIDENT

Re: Deleting local accounts

2010-03-17 Thread Matt Richards
Well, there are lots of things to think about. Unix is not just Linux, there are many more out there and not all the authentication/user situations are the same. You also have to think about Solaris and yellowpages, systems without /etc/shadow, LDAP, DCE, Krb5, etc. The list is endless in the di

Deleting local accounts

2010-03-17 Thread Justin Lloyd
Does anyone have a bundle or set of promises for deleting a local Unix account? I'm thinking about how to approach this cleanly, including removing the user from any groups in /etc/group. I thought about using systems' native commands (e.g. userdel, passmgmt, pwck, pwconv, etc.) but there can be od