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When you established your account, one piece of information you provided was an email address. The forum software sent you an email with instructions on how to to activate your account. Until you open that email and follow the instructions in it, your account will be disabled.

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4. You are now viewing your profile. Does it say: "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation"? If so, you have not activated your account.

You can also get yourself into this state if you are an established user by changing your email address.

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userdel

userdel(8)						      System Manager's Manual							userdel(8)

NAME

       userdel - delete an user account

SYNOPSIS

       userdel [-D binddn] [-P path] [-r[-f]]
	       [--service service] [--help] [-u] [-v] account

DESCRIPTION

       userdel deletes an user account from the local system files or a LDAP database and removes all entries that refer to account from the group
       database. Before the  account  is  removed,  the  USERDEL_PRECMD  command  as  defined  in  login.defs(5)  is  called,  after  removal  the
       USERDEL_POSTCMD command is called.

OPTIONS

       -r, --remove-home
	      Remove  the  whole  home	directory  and the mail spool of the specified account. Files located in other directories will have to be
	      searched for and deleted manually.

       -f, --force
	      This option is used to force the removal of files, even if not owned by the account.

       --service service
	      Add the account to a special directory. The default is files, but ldap is also valid.

       -D, --binddn binddn
	      Use the Distinguished Name binddn to bind to the LDAP directory.	The user will be prompted for a password  for  simple  authentica-
	      tion.

       -P, --path path
	      The  passwd  and	shadow	files  are  located  below the specified directory path. chpasswd will use this files, not /etc/passwd and
	      /etc/shadow.

       --help Print a list of valid options with a short description.

       -u, --usage
	      Print a short list of valid options.

       -v, --version
	      Print the version number and exit.

FILES

       passwd - user account information
       shadow - shadow user account information
       group - group information

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1), login.defs(5), passwd(5), shadow(5), useradd(8), usermod(8)

AUTHOR

       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>

pwdutils							   October 2003 							userdel(8)