Re: deleting old homedirs

["Bjarne Nielsen" <bjarne@hakadal.skole.as>]

På Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:22:38 +0200, skrev Patrick Winnertz <rap86@gmx.de>:

> Hello!
> I've written an small bashscript, which deleted old homedirs without an  
> user.
> I wrote this script because Webmin doesn't delete the homedirs at all  
> and I
> think you free this space automatically
> What do you think?
>
> should I post the script here?
>
>
> mfg
> Patrick

There is already such script:

/user/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ldap-user-clean-attic.sh

The point is that if you delete an user, it stays in "the attic" untill  
you delete them completely - so you don't loose data if you delete an user  
by mistake.

Bjarne Nielsen