On Sunday 10 November 2002 22:03, you wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:57:00PM -0500, Smitty wrote:
> > It turns out that /etc/userdb is an old suse file that is no longer used
> > in 8.1 The command for modifying the /etc/passwd file would be userdel.
>
> Careful with this. I had a problem a while back, and IIRC, userdel would
> only kill the user from /etc/passwd. It did not kill the home directory
> or eliminate it from /etc/group. I believe the deluser command handles
> all this at once. Some of the way these two commands behave is dependent
> on how their config files are written. Check the man pages. YMMV. ;-}
>
> Paul
No deluser on suse 8.1 but according to the man pages userdel will remove the
user's home directory and evidently the relevant /etc/passwd info.
Smitty
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