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System Administration 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




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System Administration Commands                        userdel(1M)



     /etc/passwd       system password file


     /etc/shadow       system file contain users' encrypted pass-
                       words 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  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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