userdel(8) [redhat man page]

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

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.  The named user must exist.  The options
       which apply to the userdel command are:

       -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

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), passwd(1), groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8), useradd(8), usermod(8)

AUTHOR

       Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)

																	USERDEL(8)

userdel(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       userdel(1M)

NAME

       userdel - delete a user's login from the system

SYNOPSIS

       userdel [-r] login

DESCRIPTION

       The  userdel  utility  deletes a user account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file
       system.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -r    Remove the user's home directory from the system. This directory must exist. The files and directories under the home directory  will
	     no longer be accessible following successful execution of the command.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       login	An existing login name to be deleted.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Successful completion.

       2     Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the userdel command is displayed.

       6     The account to be removed does not exist.

       8     The account to be removed is in use.

       10    Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login is removed from the /etc/passwd file.

       12    Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory.

FILES

       /etc/passwd	 system password file

       /etc/shadow	 system file contain users' encrypted passwords and related information

       /etc/group	 system file containing group definitions

       /etc/user_attr	 system file containing additional user attributes

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       auths(1),  passwd(1),  profiles(1),  roles(1),  users(1B),  groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M),
       useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The userdel utility only deletes an account definition that is in the local /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/user_attr  file.
       file. If a network name service such as NIS or NIS+ is being used to supplement the local /etc/passwd file with additional entries, userdel
       cannot change information supplied by the network name service.

SunOS 5.11							    8 Sep 1999							       userdel(1M)