On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:52:06PM -0500, chien-yu chen wrote:
| well, I graduated this May, and my account is expired on 9/30. However,
| on the night of 9/29, I logged into cs machine, keep pine running so the
| server would not kick me out. and observe what'll happen. turns out that
| after 9/30, my user account is deleted, but my home directory is still
| there. and I am logged in without a name (if I do a whoami). and all the
| file in my directory has owner of 5807, so I guess I am off the
| /etc/passwd file. I am planning on keep myself logged in and see what'll
| happen..but does anyone have this kind of stuff happened before?
Sure. So they removed your line from the /etc/passwd file. Standard
practice, though personally I like changing people's shells to
something that tells them their account has been removed.
(Of course, you also need to make sure you disable all other forms of
access - .forward files, .ssh stuff, cron/at jobs, etc. Ideally,
they'd also kill all your currently running processes - which they
obviously didn't do. ccwf used to (back before we were all piglet)
had this all down to an art. But then they lost the knack for a few
years, and then they really lost it when we all became piglet. In any
event, the easy/lazy way is to just delete your account from
/etc/passwd.)
They don't remove your files because it could just be a mistake. You
could show up today and say `wait! I'm still at school!' and then
they can fix you up quickly. If they're deleted your files, they need
to find the tape, restore, etc.
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Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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