Re: users accounts that don't save data

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: users accounts that don't save data
> 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.


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