users accounts that don't save data

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> you know I thought something like this would work, but after looking at 
> the bash man page for a while, I'm not sure.
> 
> 1) you would have to make certain when you create the directory that you 
> create a .bash_logout that is owned by root, and that the perms don't 
> allow any other user to edit .bash_logout.
> 
> 2) also, can you delete a parent directory while reading a file in it? 
> that would be the case if you are executing .bash_logout while trying to 
> delete its parent directory.


Use  /etc/bash.logout

Or another idea -- but not immediate on logout -- is to use a cron-based 
watcher to remove homes where user is not logged in.

Also does the user even need a home? If not, just make them use a TMP 
directory -- and use some tmp cleanup cron job to clean up periodically.