USERDEL (8)
Delete a user account and related files
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The userdel command modifies the system account files, deleting
all entries that refer to login.
The named user must exist.
Files in the user's home directory will be removed along with the
home directory itself.
Files located in other file system 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
AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jfh@bga.com)
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