Re: deluser ?

["der.hans" <deb-entwick@LuftHans.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> in de-debian-user some time ago some people asked for a reverse tool for
> adduser, like userdel for useradd. Don't you think something like this
> would be nice? We discussed a few "deluser" should be like "tar"ing the

debppc:/usr/bin# user
useradd   userdel   userlist  usermod   users     
debppc:/usr/bin# user
debppc:/usr/bin# userdel -?
userdel: invalid option -- ?
usage: userdel [-r] name

Doesn't look like it tars up dirs, but it axes the user. This is on a
potato ppc system.

lufthans@debppc:~$ dpkg -S userdel
passwd: /usr/share/man/man8/userdel.8.gz
passwd: /usr/sbin/userdel

ciao,

der.hans

> home directory and files in /var, etc.
> 
> If you like, you can look at
> ftp://ftp.copyleft.de/pub/author/roland/deluser.gz
> 
> I just wrote a little perl-script where a few thing a "deluser" should do
> are implemented. Someone suggested that something like this should be
> included in the adduser package. What do you think?
> 
> roland
> 
> 

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