File Extension Checker: Suspend Account?

[sswords]

Hi,

I have a shell script which searches through each user's /public_html/ folder every morning at 3am to find "illegal" files (file extensions include: .tor, .nfo, .bz2, etc). This works fine, but how can I make it so if an "illegal" file is found, the account is suspended?

Thanks.

[MattDees]

There are two ways of doing this.

One is by executing /scripts/suspendacct $user $reason, this is not recommended but may be useful if it is a bash script.

If you are writing this in perl or PHP, you can use the suspendacct xml-api call with one of the libraries hosted on our github:

https://github.com/cpanelinc
SuspendAccount < SoftwareDevelopmentKit < TWiki

and just ensure a /root/.accesshash file exists so that credentials can be loaded.


I will state that you may want to be careful with some of those file extensions, .bz2 concerns me as there are some legitimate reasons to have a bz2 file extensions (alot of open source code is hosted in .bz2) as it is one of the better open-source compression algorithms.