deleting a user

[mfghazi]

How we can delete a user?

I think there was thread some time ago about the same topic. If any knows about it, please tell me the link as I couldn't find it.

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Ghazi, Muhammad Farhan

[pipe]

As root:

deluser <username>

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[bdl]

You could use 'userdel' or just remove the user by hand by editing /etc/passwd.

linuxprompt# userdel -r username

-or-

linuxprompt# vipw

[DMR]

Depending on your distro, as root, do "userdel <username>" or "deluser <username>". Editing /etc/passwd will only remove the user's access to the system, but will not delete their home directory or their files.

Also, you might want to use the find command with the -user <username> option to find and delete files owned by that user which might exist in directories other than the user's home directory.

Happy New Year!!