I am looking to clean up some server old users in a environment that unfortunately does not use ldap yet. I have a list of users that i need to check in the servers and if they exist remove them. I was trying to test with this code:

$userdelex = "sudo /usr/sbin/userdel";  # location of userdel executab
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sub DeleteUnixAccount{

 my ($account,$record) = @_;

    ### construct the command line, using:
    # -r = remove the account's home directory for us
    my @cmd = ($userdelex, "-r", $account);

print "@cmd\n";

    print  "Deleting account...";
    my $result = 0xffff & system @cmd;
    # the return code is 0 for success, non-0 for failure, so we inver
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    if (!$result){
        print "succeeded.\n";
        return "";
    }
    else {
        print "failed.\n";
             return "$userdelex failed";
    }

}

DeleteUnixAccount(toto);
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I was thinking of user user:pwent or getpwent() in order to search if the user is present on the server. I will be connecting to the server in ssh using Net::OpenSSH::Parallel any idea how to use getpwent or user:pwent to do this? thanks in advance.

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