Automatic expiration date for UNIX group membership

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I want to add user to specific UNIX group only for 6 months. Then I want automatically kick him out of this group and I don't want to expire his username. Which command should I use?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 24 '20 at 18:24

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One thing that comes to mind is that you could schedule ~~a cron job~~ an at job to run the command that removes the user from the group.

Edit: Based on telcoM 's comment

edited Jan 24 '20 at 18:24

Kusalananda

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answered Jan 23 '20 at 13:22

gomfy

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Actually an at job might be a better choice, since it's a task that needs to happen just once at a particular future time. Cron jobs are better suited for repeating tasks. – telcoM Jan 23 '20 at 14:14
Thanks for pointing that out! Updated answer. – gomfy Jan 24 '20 at 15:40

Automatic expiration date for UNIX group membership

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