#!/usr/bin/perl
#reguest.pl
#by Chris Monahan
#this is free software, you can distribute it under the same terms as 
+perl itself
use warnings;
use strict;

my @dirs = ("Music", "Pictures", "Documents", "Desktop");

print "preserving guest content under a timestamped folder \n \n";

my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdist) =
     gmtime(time);
     
     $min++;
     $hour++;
     $mday++;
     $sec++;
     $mon++;
     $year++;
     
my $count = 0;
     
my @mkdir = ( "$year:$mon:$mday", "$hour:$min:$sec");
chdir ("/home/guest-content");
while ($count ne @mkdir){
    system "mkdir $mkdir[$count]";
    chdir "$mkdir[$count]";
    $count ++;
}
chdir ("/home");

$count = 0;

while ($count ne @dirs){
    my $dest = "guest-content/$year:$mon:$mday/$hour:$min:$sec/";
    #unless (
    system ("mv guest/$dirs[$count]/ $dest"
    )
    ;
    #){
    #}
    $count++;
}

print "purging configuration settings \n ";
system ("rm -R  guest");

print "restoring guest home \n ";
system ("mkdir guest");
system ("cp -R default/* guest");


$count = 0;
while ($count ne @dirs){
    system ("mkdir guest/$dirs[$count]");
    $count++;
}

print "restoring guest account password and ownership details \n";

#system("usermod -p password guest");
system ("chown -R guest:guest guest");

print "done \n"
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