logo

It’s Always Nice to Have Cron-ies!

ID: 4441c1aa-5b37-5d72-892b-98530aa78778

STIX ID: report--4441c1aa-5b37-5d72-892b-98530aa78778

Feed Name: Black Hills Infosec Blog

Date Published: 2016-08-16

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: BHIS

...
...

This blog-style how-to explains how to automate disconnecting, banning, and unbanning OpenVPN users by using OpenVPN Access Server command-line tools wrapped in simple bash scripts (discbanuser.sh and unbanuser.sh), making them executable, and scheduling them with crontab. The author demonstrates creating the scripts, adjusting permissions, adding crontab entries to run at specified times, and verifies the process by testing a user disconnect and subsequent re-enable; the content is instructional and aimed at Linux/OpenVPN administrators rather than describing an incident.

Your team is not currently subscribed to this feed. You must subscribe to it in order to see this post.