USERDEL
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
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NAME
userdel - Delete a user account and related files
SYNOPSIS
userdel
[-r]
login
DESCRIPTION
The userdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all
entries that refer to login. The named user must exist.
OPTIONS
The options which apply to the userdel command are:
- -r
-
Files in the user's home directory will be removed along with the home
directory itself and the user's mail spool. Files located in other file
systems will have to be searched for and deleted manually.
FILES
/etc/passwd - user account information
/etc/shadow - secure user account information
/etc/group - group information
EXIT VALUES
- The userdel command exits with the following values:
-
0 - success
1 - can't update password file
2 - invalid command syntax
6 - specified user doesn't exist
8 - user currently logged in
10 - can't update group file
12 - can't remove home directory
CAVEATS
userdel will not allow you to remove an account if the user is
currently logged in. You must kill any running processes which belong to an
account that you 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),
passwd(1),
groupadd(8),
groupdel(8),
groupmod(8),
useradd(8),
usermod(8)
AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- FILES
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- EXIT VALUES
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- CAVEATS
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHOR
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