Disabling users after a period of time

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 05:38:03AM -0500, Renich Bon Ciric wrote:
> Anyway, I thought of using usermod -e; which is the expire flag. But
> this will not disable their websites along with the user, since the
> files are out of their home dir; which we will never support.


There are a lot of possibilities, but here is one way. Use that flag
suggested, and also run a nightly cron job which looks at the "account
experiation date" field in /etc/shadow (it's the next-to-last one -- see
`man 5 shadow`). This is in days since Jan 1, 1970. Compare that to the
_current_ days since that time `echo $(($(date  +%s) / 86400))` and if the
number is higher, drop in the webserver configuration which redirects to the
expired notice.





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