userdel

 

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 Maintenance 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  fol-
            lowing 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  user-
            del 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
 
 
 
 
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 Maintenance Commands                                  userdel(1M)
 
 
 
      /etc/user_attr"
            system file containing additional user attributes
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
      ____________________________________________________________
     |       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), attri-
      butes(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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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