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Re: inverse of `adduser'?



>>         *       what if the user has processes running?  Or a print
>>                 job queued?  Or mail queued?
>
>Life is too short to worry about this.

Actually I should have written `kill any processes the user owns'
without opening that point to discussion since leaving them running
has obvious security problems.

>> Maybe it should be possible to delete everything from the home
>> directory except a .forward file.
>
>Actually, in my shop we don't allow .forward files to remain for
[...]

Fair enough, though I'm inclined to think that this should be a local
decision.

ttfn/rjk


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