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userdel(1M)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Options | Operands | Exit Status | Files | Attributes | See Also | Notes

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 following 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 userdel 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

/etc/user_attr

system file containing additional user attributes

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

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), attributes(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.

Name | Synopsis | Description | Options | Operands | Exit Status | Files | Attributes | See Also | Notes