Solaris Remove (deleting) a user account

by LinuxTitli on March 16, 2006 · 0 comments

The userdel command deletes a user account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file system.

Use userdel command to remove user account rockyjr (but not home directory only remove entry from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files)

# userdel rockyjr

Pass -r option to userdel command to remove users home directory and login information:

# userdel -r rockyjr

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