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Removing a user

To remove a user, you first remove all his files, and then remove the relevant lines from /etc/passwd  and /etc/group . Some Linux distributions come with special commands to do this; look for deluser  or userdel . However, it is easy to do it by hand as well.



Lars Wirzenius
Sun Jun 29 13:31:22 EEST 1997