Orphaned Home Directories?

carlosinfl · 10-06-2010, 10:35 AM

For some reason on my mail server when I ran my 'delete-user.sh' script, it did everything correct except remove their actual /home/$USERNAME folder from the system. The users are deleted from /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, & /etc/gshadow. Is there some way on my Linux system I can search and remove these useless orphaned home directories that didn't get deleted by my script? I am sure the are some 10-20 directories that are just vacant but I have too many users on the server to figure this out.

Thanks for any help!

unSpawn · 10-06-2010, 11:31 AM

Something like

Code:

find /home/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -not -name lost+found -printf '%f\n'|while read USERNAME; do 
 getent passwd $USERNAME >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "Remove /home/${USERNAME}"
done

?

carlosinfl · 10-06-2010, 11:40 AM

Thank you but I am not sure where your code starts / stops. Can you encode using ?

carlosinfl · 10-06-2010, 12:33 PM