Re: [vps-mail] Bayes --force-expire problem

[Scott Wiersdorf <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:55:26PM -0400, Jim Smith wrote:
> For anyone else with a similar problem to this, I figured I'll share the
> solution. It was triggered from Abigail and Scott's discussion on
> permissions. When I log in as root and run sa-learn --force-expire, it does
> the expire as it is suppose to. However, because I'm logged in as root, it
> naturally leaves the owner as root instead of jimsmith. If I had changed it
> back from root to jimsmith, I'm sure it would have been fine. However, now I
> know for next time.

Here's a little shell script you could run to expire a list of users:

<snip>
#!/bin/sh
for user in joe bob sally; do su -m $user -c "sa-learn --force-expire"; done
</snip>

The 'su -m $user' drops privileges to that userid (as if you had
logged in as them, even if they don't have shell access).

You could put that in a file and run it from cron once in a while.
That way you won't get the root problems if you forget to chown their
file back.

Scott
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