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$FreeBSD: head/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 79755 2001-07-15 08:06:20Z dd $
.Dd February 23, 1997 .Dt RMUSER 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm rmuser .Nd removes users from the system .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl y .Op Ar username .Sh DESCRIPTION The utility .Nm
p l -enum t Removes the user's .Xr crontab 1 entry (if any). t Removes any .Xr at 1 jobs belonging to the user. t Sends a SIGKILL signal to all processes owned by the user. t Removes the user from the system's local password file. t Removes the user's home directory (if it is owned by the user), including handling of symbolic links in the path to the actual home directory. t Removes the incoming mail and pop daemon mail files belonging to the user from
a /var/mail . t Removes all files owned by the user from
a /tmp ,
a /var/tmp/vi.recover . t Removes the username from all groups to which it belongs in
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 Ns 's per-user unique groups). .El
p .Nm Rmuser politely refuses to remove users whose uid is 0 (typically root), since certain actions (namely, killing all the user's processes, and perhaps removing the user's home directory) would cause damage to a running system. If it is necessary to remove a user whose uid is 0, see .Xr vipw 8 for information on directly editing the password file, by which the desired user's .Xr passwd 5 entry may be removed manually.
p If not running "affirmatively" (i.e., option .Fl y is not specified), .Nm 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, .Nm asks whether you wish to remove the user's home directory and everything below.
p As .Nm operates, it informs the user regarding the current activity. If any errors occur, they are posted to standard error and, if it is possible for .Nm to continue, it will.
p Available options:
p
l -tag -width username t Fl y Affirm - any question that would be asked is answered implicitly in
the affirmative (i.e., yes). A username must also be specified on the
command line if this option is used.
t Ar username Identifies the user to be removed; if not present,
.Nm
interactively asks for the user to be removed.
.El
.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 adduser 8 ,
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
.Xr vipw 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
.Sh AUTHOR
Guy Helmer, Ames, Iowa
.Sh BUGS
.Nm Rmuser
does not comprehensively search the filesystem for all files
owned by the removed user and remove them; to do so on a system
of any size is prohibitively slow and I/O intensive.
.Nm Rmuser
also is unable to remove symbolic links that were created by the
user in
a /tmp or
a /var/tmp as symbolic links on 4.4BSD filesystems do not contain information as to who created them. Also, there may be other files created in
a /var/mail/.pop.username that are not owned by the removed user but should be removed.
p .Nm Rmuser has no knowledge of NIS (Yellow Pages), and it operates only on the local password file.