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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nntp.wwwi.com!rtd.com!dgy From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help deleting a user Date: 21 Jun 1996 08:09:54 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4qdlcj$hp1@baygull.rtd.com> References: <31c5fba8.407993@news.intergate.bc.ca> <4qd73s$id5@primus.ac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com In article <4qd73s$id5@primus.ac.net>, Mike Shultz <shultz@mail.gld.com> wrote: >jordon@intergate.bc.ca (Jordon Randall) wrote: > >>I know this is a dumb question, but how do you erase a user? > >man vipw >rm -r /usr/home/???? Actually, find / -user joe -print will let you see if there's anything else of his (joe's) lying around on your system. And, find / -user joe -depth -exec rm -df {} \; will blindly erase everything of his. There are other variations on this theme...