[SOLVED] Legacy Account in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and/or /etc/group
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Legacy Account in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and/or /etc/group
Verify no legacy '+' entries exist in passwd, shadow, and group files Verify no legacy '+' entries exist in passwd, shadow, and group files
I have this command for this but it is not giving any kind of out put
grep ^+: /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group
i am runing "echo $?" then it is giving "1" it means their is not legacy account.
but i wan to see the out put for this i am sending you the script if legacy account is their so how can i delet it?
#!/bin/bash
#This script will give the information of legacy account.
I believe the problem is that you won't (or shouldn't) have permission to read /etc/shadow, so grep will return 2, not 0. I think you're after something like:
Code:
LG=$(grep '^+:' /etc/passwd) #if they're in passwd, they're a user
if [$? -eq 0]; then
#We've found a user
echo "We've found the user '+'!"
sudo userdel '+'
echo "Deleted."
else
echo "Couldn't find the user '+'."
fi
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