userdel - delete a user's login from the system userdel
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System Administration Commands userdel(1M) NAME userdel - delete a user's login from the system SYNOPSIS userdel [-r] [-S repository] [-q qualifier] 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. An administrator must be granted the User Management Profile to be able to delete a user. OPTIONS The following options are supported: -q qualfier The name of a host or netgroup which qualifies which attributes to delete. The prefix @ is required to indicate that the qualifier is a netgroup name. The -q option is only valid if the user account is maintained in the LDAP name service. Only the attributes associ- ated with the qualifier are deleted. The account and other attributes are not affected unless this option is omitted. In that case, all qualified attributes are also deleted. -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. A ZFS dataset that was created for the user's home directory will be removed. An auto_home entry that was added for the user will be deleted. -S repository The valid repositories are files, ldap. The repository specifies which name service will be updated. The default repository is files. 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 |system/core-os | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO auths(1), passwd(1), profiles(1), roles(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M), user- add(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5) NOTES The userdel utility deletes an account definition that is in the group, passwd, shadow, and user_attr databases in the files or ldap reposi- tory. SunOS 5.11 21 Dec 2010 userdel(1M)
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