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From: sn@penelope.frmug.fr.net (Sylvain Nierveze)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help deleting a user
Date: 24 Jun 1996 21:02:47 +0200
Organization: Penelope Corp.
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Jed Clear (clear@netaxs.com) wrote:
: > 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...
: Disable the user, do the find, then do the delete from /etc/passwd.
: Also I think find has an option for "unkown" user.
yes (from man find) :
-nouser and -nogroup : true if the file belongs to an unknown user/group