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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
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Message-ID: <4qdlcj$hp1@baygull.rtd.com>
References: <31c5fba8.407993@news.intergate.bc.ca> <4qd73s$id5@primus.ac.net>
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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...