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3.1 KiB
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.\"$Id: userdel.8,v 1.12 2004/11/02 19:28:31 kloczek Exp $
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.\" Copyright 1991 - 1994, Julianne Frances Haugh
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" 3. Neither the name of Julianne F. Haugh nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY JULIE HAUGH AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL JULIE HAUGH OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.TH USERDEL 8
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.SH NAME
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userdel \- Delete a user account and related files
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B userdel
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[\fB-r\fR]
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.I login
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBuserdel\fR command modifies the system account files, deleting all
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entries that refer to \fIlogin\fR. The named user must exist.
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.SH OPTIONS
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The options which apply to the \fBuserdel\fR command are:
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.IP \fB-r\fR
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Files in the user's home directory will be removed along with the home
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directory itself and the user's mail spool. Files located in other file
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systems will have to be searched for and deleted manually.
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.SH FILES
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\fI/etc/passwd\fR \- user account information
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.br
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\fI/etc/shadow\fR \- secure user account information
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.br
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\fI/etc/group\fR \- group information
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.SH EXIT VALUES
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.TP 2
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The \fBuserdel\fR command exits with the following values:
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.br
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\fB0\fR \- success
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.br
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\fB1\fR \- can't update password file
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.br
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\fB2\fR \- invalid command syntax
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.br
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\fB6\fR \- specified user doesn't exist
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.br
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\fB8\fR \- user currently logged in
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.br
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\fB10\fR \- can't update group file
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.br
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\fB12\fR \- can't remove home directory
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.SH CAVEATS
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\fBuserdel\fR will not allow you to remove an account if the user is
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currently logged in. You must kill any running processes which belong to an
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account that you are deleting. You may not remove any NIS attributes on an
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NIS client. This must be performed on the NIS server.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR chfn (1),
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.BR chsh (1),
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.BR passwd (1),
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.BR groupadd (8),
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.BR groupdel (8),
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.BR groupmod (8),
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.BR useradd (8),
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.BR usermod (8)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)
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