Topic: Lock account by script

[morpion]

Morning all
I am using SME 7.5.1 and would like to come up with a way to lock a user account by using some sort of script.

We currently administer our personnel on a separate database system. When the employee leaves the company (heaven forbid!), the relevant manager shows them as left and their access to our databases is automatically cancelled. I would like our database system to send a message to SME that locks out the user's account as well so that they have no access to workstations or emails from the moment they are shown as having left.
I cannot find anything which might be able to help me with this but I was thinking along the lines of a shell script that I could invoke remotely or a telnet session or something similar.
If anyone has done something like this then your help would be appreciated.
regards
Mike

[Stefano]

you could call, via ssh

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signal-event user-lock username

you should use shared keys for authentication

for more details:
- check /etc/e-smith/events/user-lock content
- read the developer manual

[morpion]

Thanks Stefano
That's just what I'm after.

Many thanks for your help
Mike