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Re: How to remove a user





	Sorry, but the correct is

	find / -user username -o -group usergroup > /tmp/usersfilelist

	the option name looks for a file with name NAME.

	Bye,
		Aldenor
	
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Aldenor Falcao Martins, M Sc
ETFAL Internet Admin
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On 17 Jun 1999, Rob Browning wrote:

> David Teague <dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu> writes:
> 
> > I think you issue the command
> > 
> > 	userdel -r username
> > 
> > to remove both user, the home directory and files, but RTFM 
> > to be sure.  
> 
> Note that this won't get any files the user might have in locations
> other than their home directory, and I don't know if it deletes their
> group (though it probably does).  To find and delete all the files the
> user owns, you'll need something like this (as root):
> 
>   find / -name username -o -group usergroup > /tmp/usersfilelist
> 
> Then you can delete all the files in usersfilelist.
> 
> This probably won't catch things like the user's crontab or any "at"
> tasks.  You'll have to handle those manually, and to be truly safe,
> you need to lock the user out before doing this (I've forgotten the
> magic command for that, but you can just change their password with
> passwd and use who or w to make sure they're not currently logged in).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -- 
> Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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