[Pkg-shadow-devel] Should userdel remove users crontabs?

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

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On Tue, 24 May 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:

> (Marc, nagging you again, essentially to let you aware of discussed
> issues. This is probably not the last time as I'm currently digging
> into "wishlist" bugs for shadow)
>=20
> >From #173431:
>=20
>     In the manpage of "userdel", I can read this: -r Files in the
>     user's home directory will be removed along with the home
>     directory itself and the user's mail spool.  Files located in
>     other file systems will have to be searched for and deleted
>     manually.
>=20
>     I think "userdel -r" could also remove the crontabs of the user at
>     /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$USER

Christian look on comment in src/userdel.c::user_cancel():

/*
 * user_cancel - cancel cron and at jobs
 *
 *      user_cancel removes the crontab and any at jobs for a user
 */

/*
 * We used to have all this stuff hardcoded here, but now
 * we just run an external script - it may need to do other
 * things as well (like removing print jobs) and we may not
 * want to recompile userdel too often. Below is a sample
 * script (should work at least on Debian 1.1).  --marekm
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#! /bin/sh

# Check for the required argument.
if [ $# !=3D 1 ]; then
        echo Usage: $0 username
        exit 1
fi

# Remove cron jobs.
crontab -r -u $1

# Remove at jobs. XXX - will remove any jobs owned by the same UID, even if
# it was shared by a different username. at really should store the usernam=
e
# somewhere, and atrm should support an option to remove all jobs owned by
# the specified user - for now we have to do this ugly hack...
find /var/spool/cron/atjobs -name "[^.]*" -type f -user $1 -exec rm {} \;

# Remove print jobs.
lprm $1

# All done.
exit 0
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 */

If anyone will have other solution for removing at/cron jobs please=20
inform me.

kloczek
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