Script for deleting numerous ids?? 1

[suntech]

Example, There are 150 ids with a GID of 500. I have been given a list of 100 ids that need to be deleted within this group (500). Rather than go into admintool and do each one individually, is there a script I could use?

The script would ask what GID?
Once the GID was entered it would pull up each id within that GID one at a time, prompting me with a choice to delete "Y" or "N"
If "Y" is selected, it would remove that id from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and perhaps give me the choice to also delete their home directory.

 

[bi]

Why not use the command userdel -r <loginname>? The -r deletes the home directory.

You could have a list of the users you want to delete, do a read of the list and delete those who are in the list.

 

[Annihilannic]

[tt]#!/bin/ksh

echo &quot;What GID? \c&quot; ; read GID

exec 3<&0

nawk -F: '$4==&quot;'$GID'&quot; { print $1 }' /etc/passwd | while read USER
do
echo &quot;Remove $USER? \c&quot; ; read -u3 YN
if [[ &quot;$YN&quot; == [yY] ]]
then
echo &quot;Remove home directory too? \c&quot; ; read -u3 YN
if [[ &quot;$YN&quot; == [yY] ]]
then
userdel -r $USER
else
userdel $USER
fi
fi
done

exec 3<&-[/tt]

The script duplicates standard input (exec 3<&0) to allow it to read from both the nawk output and the user separately. Annihilannic.

 

[sungai]

My problem:

I am unable to identify and trace down the error display:

SUNW,hme0:LinkDown - cable problem ?

 

[Annihilannic]

Please start a new thread if you have a new, unrelated issue.

That error means that one of your network interfaces doesn't have a cable connected, or there is some problem with the network cable, network switch, etc. Annihilannic.

 

[suntech]

Annihilannic, thank you so much, it works like a charm!