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HTML
208 lines
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HTML
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>Removing a user</TITLE
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TITLE="Managing user accounts"
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TITLE="Changing user properties"
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TITLE="Disabling a user temporarily"
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>Chapter 11. Managing user accounts</TD
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NAME="DELUSER"
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>11.4. Removing a user</H1
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><P
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> To remove a user, you first remove all
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his files, mailboxes, mail aliases, print jobs,
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<B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>cron</B
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> and <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>at</B
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> jobs,
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and all other references to the user. Then you remove the
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relevant lines from <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/etc/passwd</TT
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> and
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/etc/group</TT
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> (remember to remove the username
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from all groups it's been added to). It may be a good idea to
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first disable the account (see below), before you start removing
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stuff, to prevent the user from using the account while it is
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being removed. </P
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><P
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> Remember that users may have files outside their home
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directory. The <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>find</B
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> command can find them:
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><PRE
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>find / -user username</PRE
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>
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However, note that the above command will take a
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<EM
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>long</EM
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> time, if you have large disks. If you
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mount network disks, you need to be careful so that you won't
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trash the network or the server. </P
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><P
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> Some Linux distributions come with special
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commands to do this; look for <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>deluser</B
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> or
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<B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>userdel</B
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>. However, it is easy to do it by
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hand as well, and the commands might not do everything. </P
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>Prev</A
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>Changing user properties</TD
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>Disabling a user temporarily</TD
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