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$FreeBSD: head/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 21880 1997-01-20 00:03:00Z wosch $
.Dd July 16, 1996 .Dt RMUSER 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm rmuser .Nd remove users from the system .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm rmuser .Op Ar username .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm rmuser utility removes a user's .Xr crontab 1 entry (if any) and any .Xr at 1 jobs belonging to the user, then removes a user from the system's local password file, removes the user's home directory if it is owned by the user, and removes the user's incoming mail file if it exists. The username is removed from any groups to which it belongs in the file
a /etc/group . If a group becomes empty and the group name is the same as the username, the group is removed (this complements .Xr adduser 8 's per-user unique groups).
p .Nm rmuser politely refuses to remove users whose uid is 0 (typically root), since it seemed like a good idea at the time .Nm rmuser was written.
p .Nm rmuser shows the selected user's password file entry and asks for confirmation that you wish to remove the user. If the user's home directory is owned by the user (and not by any other user), .Nm rmuser asks whether you wish to remove the user's home directory and everything below.
p Available options:
p
l -tag -width username t Ar username Identifies the user to be removed; if not present,
.Nm rmuser
interactively asks for the user to be removed.
.Sh FILES
l -tag -width /etc/master.passwd -compact t Pa /etc/master.passwd t Pa /etc/passwd t Pa /etc/group t Pa /etc/spwd.db t Pa /etc/pwd.db .El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr at 1 ,
.Xr chpass 1 ,
.Xr crontab 1 ,
.Xr finger 1 ,
.Xr passwd 1 ,
.Xr group 5 ,
.Xr passwd 5 ,
.Xr addgroup 8 ,
.Xr adduser 8 ,
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
.Xr rmgroup 8 ,
.Xr vipw 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Fx 2.1.5 .
.Sh AUTHOR
Guy Helmer, Madison, South Dakota