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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001040000000000000000">Removing a user</A></H1>
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To remove a user, you first remove all his files,
mailboxes, mail aliases, print jobs, <tt>cron</tt><A NAME="2893"> </A> and
<tt>at</tt><A NAME="2895"> </A> jobs, and all other references to the user.
Then you remove the relevant lines from <tt>/etc/passwd</tt><A NAME="2897"> </A>
and <tt>/etc/group</tt><A NAME="2899"> </A> (remember to remove the username from
all groups it's been added to). It may be a good idea
to first disable the account (see below), before you
start removing stuff, to prevent the user from using the
account while it is being removed.
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Remember that users may have files outside their home
directory. The <tt>find</tt><A NAME="2901"> </A> command can find them:
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find / -user <i>username</i>
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However, note that the above command will take a <em>long</em>
time, if you have large disks. If you mount network disks
(see section <A HREF="node16.html#secNFS">2.3.8</A>), you need to be careful so
that you won't trash the network or the server.
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Some Linux distributions come with special commands
to do this; look for <tt>deluser</tt><A NAME="2903"> </A> or <tt>userdel</tt><A NAME="2905"> </A>.
However, it is easy to do it by hand as well, and the
commands might not do everything.
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<I>Lars Wirzenius <BR>
Sat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997</I>
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