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USERDEL
!!!USERDEL
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
EXIT VALUES
CAVEATS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
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!!NAME


userdel - Delete a user account and related files
!!SYNOPSIS


__userdel__ [[__-r__] ''login''
!!DESCRIPTION


The __userdel__ command modifies the system account
files, deleting all entries that refer to ''login''. If
__USERGROUPS_ENAB__ is set to yes in
__/etc/login.defs__, then __userdel__ will also remove
entries in __/etc/group__ that refer to ''login'' if,
and only if, there are no members of that group listed, or
the only member is ''login''. The named user must
exist.


__-r__


Files in the user's home directory will be removed along
with the home directory itself and the user's mail spool.
Files located in other file systems will have to be searched
for and deleted manually.
!!FILES


/etc/passwd - user account information
/etc/shadow - secure user account information
/etc/group - group information
/etc/login.defs - login configuration file
!!EXIT VALUES


0 - success
1 - can't update password file
2 - bad command syntax
6 - specified user doesn't exist
8 - user currently logged in
10 - can't update group file
12 - can't remove home directory
!!CAVEATS


__userdel__ will not allow you to remove an account if
the user is currently logged in. You must kill any running
processes which belong to an account that you are deleting.
You may not remove any NIS attributes on an NIS client. This
must be performed on the NIS server.
!!SEE ALSO


chfn(1), chsh(1), groupadd(8),
groupdel(8), groupmod(8), passwd(1),
useradd(8), usermod(8),
login.defs(5)
!!AUTHOR


Julianne Frances Haugh (jfh@austin.ibm.com)
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Last edited on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 12:31:22 am by "perry"

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