The Home Directory Purging service module can archive, delete, and later delete archives of the home directories of users set to be purgeable in LDAP.
We created a purgeableAccount schema in the Three Rings
Enterprise OID space to keep track of the date and time at which an
LDAP user's home directory should be archived and deleted. The
needed schema can be found in schema/ooo.schema
and schema/ooopa.schema
in the Splat
distribution. These define a new object class
purgeableAccount and a new optional attribute
pendingPurge. The Home Directory Purging module utilizes
the pendingPurge attribute to determine account
purgability.
attributetype ( oooPAAttributes:1 NAME 'pendingPurge' DESC 'Timestamp of pending deletion date' EQUALITY generalizedTimeMatch SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.24 SINGLE-VALUE ) objectclass ( oooPAClasses:1 NAME 'purgeableAccount' DESC 'Purgeable Account' SUP top AUXILIARY MAY ( pendingPurge ) )
The Home Directory Purging module supports the following options. The
home
, minuid
, and mingid
options
are not required to be set, but are useful for sanity checking.
Only home directories that are subdirectories of the specified directory may be purged and/or archived.
Do not purge/archive home directories for uids lower than minuid.
Do not purge/archive home directories for gids lower than mingid.
Set to true
to archive
a user's home directory before purging it. Defaults to true.
Set to true
to purge
a user's home directory after the pendingPurge
time in the user's LDAP entry. Defaults to
true. N.B. if this option and
archivehomedir
are both set
to false
, the plugin will do
nothing.
Set to true
to delete
the archive created of a user's home directory. This action will
take place purgearchivewait
days after the archive was last modified (which will generally
be when the archive was created). Defaults to true.
Directory that homedir archives will be created and left
in. Defaults to /home
.
Number of days since its last modified time to wait before deleting a homedir archive. Defaults to 14.