Re: How to remove a user

[David Teague <dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Dumb newbie question:	How do I delete a user account?

Jon

This is NOT a dumb question. I used locate to find the answer.

elentari:~[1]locate userdel
/usr/man/man8/userdel.8.gz
/usr/sbin/userdel

I think you issue the command

	userdel -r username

to remove both user, the home directory and files, but RTFM 
to be sure.  

--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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