Inactivity Checker

[JohnnyD1995]

Would it be possible to have something like a cron script that i can run that checks /home for any instance of a file called WebLoversRemoveInstantly.php for instance and if the file exists.... suspend the account.

[cPanelDavidN]

Hi JohnnyD1995,

Yes that's possible.

What I'd suggest doing is creating a script (Perl, Bash, PHP, whatever) that performs:

1)`find` for that file.
2) based on the absolute path of that file, you would know the user's home directory.
- ie, '/home/dave/public_html/badHackScript.php' => '/home/dave' ...so who ever owns /home/dave
3) this directory should belong to "dave", but you could verify that by doing a stat of the directory or you could do a recursive grep for the homedir attribute in the userdata directory /var/cpanel/userdata with a regex similar to `grep -rP 'homedir:\s*/home/dave\s*$' ./* 2>/dev/null`

root@004 [/var/cpanel]# grep -rP 'homedir:\s*/home/dave\s*$' ./* 2>/dev/null
./userdata/dave/afavaf.dave.com:homedir: /home/dave
./userdata/dave/where.dave.com:homedir: /home/dave
./userdata/dave/dave.com:homedir: /home/dave
./userdata/dave/extradave.dave.com:homedir: /home/dave
./userdata/dave/who.dave.com:homedir: /home/dave

4) now you know for certain that "dave" is the owner (as that is the homedir listed in his file), you can now use our API to suspend the user: XML-API suspendacct

if you have a remote accesshash, you can use either the Perl PublicAPI or PHP PublicAPI clients (or some other remote query API client) to easily make the request to suspend the account.

Regards,
-DavidN

[JohnnyD1995]

Yes this sounds exactly what I am looking for

However sadly I am not good with coding as this should be relatively easy to do maybe someone would be willing to create it for me for.... $5? this is all the cash I have at the moment I am afraid.