##first time it removes the user
[20210701 17H32M.34S] jumpbox[9621]: Deactivating user abc
[20210701 17H32M.34S] jumpbox[9621]: Locking abc account (via expiration date)
usermod: no changes
[20210701 17H32M.34S] jumpbox[9621]: Moving home directory ~abc to /var/vcap/store/jumpbox/home/.abc.20213207/01/21.173234
##and then every time after
[20210701 19H02M.50S] jumpbox[9621]: Deactivating user abc
[20210701 19H02M.50S] jumpbox[9621]: Locking abc account (via expiration date)
usermod: no changes
[20210701 19H02M.50S] jumpbox[9621]: Moving home directory ~abc to /var/vcap/store/jumpbox/home/.abc.20210207/01/21.190250
mv: cannot stat '/var/vcap/store/jumpbox/home/abc': No such file or directory
#and then our user folder becomes littered with empty folders, every 5 minutes.
==[]=[ 19:27:38 ]=[ our-jumpbox jumpbox/0 ]=[ /u ]=[]==
# ls -la
total 948
drwxr-xr-x 235 root root 12288 Jul 1 17:28 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 13 20:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x 11 user1 staff 4096 Feb 23 17:21 user1
drwxr-xr-x 3 user2 staff 4096 Jan 13 20:56 user2
drwxr-xr-x 10 user3 staff 4096 Jun 29 21:49 user3
drwxr-xr-x 21 user4 staff 4096 Jun 25 20:16 user4
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Apr 30 01:00 .abc.20210004
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 May 31 19:00 .abc.20210005
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 30 00:00 .abc.20210006
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 1 01:00 .abc.20210007
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Apr 30 08:01 .abc.20210104
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 May 30 15:01 .abc.20210105
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 30 05:01 .abc.20210106
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 1 06:01 .abc.20210107
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Apr 30 15:02 .abc.20210204
..........
After modifying the watcher file to remove the user credentials - the watcher restarts itself but the user array does not get emptied & reset.
At which point, it will continue to create an empty .${user}.${today} every five minutes.
After a while, these empty 12K folders can certainly clog a system.
After modifying the
watcher
file to remove the user credentials - the watcher restarts itself but the user array does not get emptied & reset. At which point, it will continue to create an empty.${user}.${today}
every five minutes. After a while, these empty 12K folders can certainly clog a system.