delete admin users automatically in turdpress
So, Turdpress (aka wordpress) randomly gets hacker users added to the list of admin users. This sucks. Hence it is called Turdpress. To fix: Make a folder, something like /scripts/ mkdir /scripts inside there make two shell scripts, call them delete.sh and run_sql.sh set up a user, e.g. john , to automatically run mysql as root without authentication (obviously put a strong password on that user). mysql_config_editor set --host=localhost --user=john --password mysql_config_editor set --host=localhost --user=root --password Script: run_sql.sh #!/bin/sh if [ -z "`cat $1 | grep -i drop `" ] ; then su - john -c mysql < $1 else echo "Dont like that sql, bye" fi Script: delete.sh #!/bin/sh for i in cat list.txt ; do ( echo $i cat delete.sql | sed -e s/xxx/$i/g > /tmp/delete-$i.sql sh run_sql.sh /tmp/delete-$i.sql rm /tmp/delete-$i.sql ) ; done Now make the basic SQL commands to run. In this SQL, leave the xxx in place but replace #1, #2, etc., with