[K12OSN] Kill all your users

[cliebow at midmaine.com]

we just pkill on logout..seems to minimize the "password sharing" between
students quite effectively..
> (in a no n-sadistic manner)  ;-)
>
> Kill 'em all!  (at the end of the day)  ;-)
>
> Here's how I do it.  I have a script called "stop" located in /usr/bin.
> It's designed originally to "kill" a single user, but I have taken that
> script and made another script that can be launched as a cron job to
> "purge" the server.  First the "stop" script....
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # usage  stop username
> # stop
> # script to logoff a student
> #
>
> if [ $1 != "root" ]
> then
>    for i in $(pgrep -u $1)
>    do
>       kill -9 $i
>    done
> else
>    clear
>    echo "Can't kill the root!!"
> fi
>
>
> Now the script to "stop" them all:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> for x in `ls /home`; do
> echo "Killing $x ..."
> stop ${x}
> done
>
> I called this one "stop-all", made it executable (chmod a+x stop-all) and
> put it into a cron job.  Works pretty slick!  :-)  YMMV
>
> PS....doesn't matter if /home is local or mounted via NFS (like
> Samba/LDAP) it simply reads the directory listing of /home to get
> usernames.  If your home dirs are in a different location or separated by
> YOG or something like that....just add the extra step to call that
> directory.  Something like:
>
> for x in `ls /home/2007`; do
>
>
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Director
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> (207)923-3100
>
>
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