Can't Delete User Then... Freeze?

[Mhaddy]

Hey there guys,

I just tried to delete a user from my RH7.1 box using Linuxconf and it was unsuccessful and froze my box. Any ideas on why it did that or how to rectify it?

[mdwatts]

???

A known bug with Linuxconf on RH 7.1 ??

Perhaps have a look in your system logfiles to see if anything was recorded to indicate what the problem could be and the reason for the freeze.

/var/log/messages and other logfiles in /var/log

You could use the commandline 'userdel' utility to remove the user.

userdel <username>

or

userdel -r <username> (which will remove the user's home directory and contents)

[Mhaddy]

Ugh, my bad - the PC didn't freeze it was just taking an abnormally long time to process things. Thanks ;).