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I need to remove 25 obsolete users from a Solaris 9 server.

I see from the man pages that userdel -r user should do the trick.

Instead of doing them at a time, how can I string them together? My guess is:

userdel -r userA; userdel -r userB; userdel -r userC

or
userdel -r userA
userdel -r userB
userdel -r userC

Thanks in advance,
~R
Note: We don't use ldap, NIS, etc.

Both are correct, but the second is more readable.


Always check the location and content of the user's home directory before issuing "userdel -r".
I've seen some classics where a user account has been created incorrectly with say "/oracle" as the home directory!