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Trouble re-adding removed mobile accountsSolved

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3 months ago

Hey, I’m working on a script to clean up some of our employees’ mobile accounts from our AD-bound machines. The machines are set to create mobile accounts at login with no confirmation, and all our employee usernames have a “.” in them (like Mathew.Cooper). Here’s what I’ve got so far:

# list all users with the "." character in their names 
USERS=$( dscl . ls /Users | grep -e "\." ) 
# echo users 
echo Deleting the following users: $USERS 
# delete users 
/usr/bin/dscl . delete /Users/"$USERS" 
echo User accounts deleted 
# delete home folders 
/bin/rm -rf /Users/"$USERS" 
echo User home folders deleted

# list all users with the "." character in their names

USERS=$( dscl . ls /Users | grep -e "\." )

# echo users

echo Deleting the following users: $USERS

# delete users

/usr/bin/dscl . delete /Users/"$USERS"

echo User accounts deleted

# delete home folders

/bin/rm -rf /Users/"$USERS"

echo User home folders deleted

It works for removing the accounts, but after rebooting, I can’t seem to add them back from the login screen. This could be a big problem if the employees can’t use their computers. Any ideas on what’s going wrong? Or maybe there’s a smarter way to handle this?

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desmond

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3 months ago

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Hey @josiah! Have you tried modifying the script to check if it’s removing any critical files or accounts that might be needed for re-login? Sometimes just a small tweak can make a big difference.

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boris

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3 months ago

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Hi @josiah , @desmond is correct. Sometimes when accounts are removed too broadly, certain system settings or files that facilitate account re-adding during login might also get wiped out. Here’s a script that could help:

#!/bin/bash 
# Get a list of user accounts with "." in their usernames 
userList=$(dscl . -list /Users | grep -E '\.') 
# Iterate through the user accounts 
for user in $userList; do 
    # Check if the user is a standard user (not a system account) 
    if [[ $(id -u $user) -ge 501 ]]; then 
        echo "Deleting user account: $user" 
        # Delete the user account 
        sysadminctl -deleteUser $user 
        # Delete the home folder 
        rm -rf /Users/$user 
        echo "User account and home folder deleted" 
    else 
        echo "Skipping system account: $user" 
    fi 
done 
echo "Employee user accounts removed!" 
exit 0

#!/bin/bash

# Get a list of user accounts with "." in their usernames

userList=$(dscl . -list /Users | grep -E '\.')

# Iterate through the user accounts

for user in $userList; do

# Check if the user is a standard user (not a system account)

if [[ $(id -u $user) -ge 501 ]]; then

echo "Deleting user account: $user"

# Delete the user account

sysadminctl -deleteUser $user

# Delete the home folder

rm -rf /Users/$user

echo "User account and home folder deleted"

else

echo "Skipping system account: $user"

done

echo "Employee user accounts removed!"

exit 0

This should do the trick, though it might take a bit longer if you’ve got lots of users.

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