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USERDEL
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Index NAME
userdel - Delete a user account and related files
SYNOPSIS
userdel[
-r]
login DESCRIPTION
The
userdel command modifies the system account files, deletingall entries that refer to
login.The named user must exist.
- -r
- Files in the user's home directory will be removed along with thehome directory itself.Files located in other file system will have to be searched forand deleted manually.
FILES
/etc/passwd - user account information
/etc/shadow - secure user account information
/etc/group - group information
CAVEATS
userdel will not allow you to remove an account if the useris currently logged in.You must kill any running processes which belong to an account thatyou are deleting.You may not remove any NIS attributes on an NIS client.This must be performed on the NIS server.
SEE ALSO
chfn(1),
chsh(1),
groupadd(8),
groupdel(8),
groupmod(8),
passwd(1),
useradd(8),
usermod(8)
AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jfhAATTtab.com)
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- FILES
- CAVEATS
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
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