Creating and Deleting a User?

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Carlosinfl · #1 Post by **Carlosinfl** » 2005-10-22 15:42

I sometimes will create a user account for someone so they can login to my box via FTP for one day and then after I see they have logged in to my ftp, I will remove their account. I was wondering if anyone can tell me after I delete the user account, is anything left maining on my Linux machine? Do I need to remove any special files or anything as I don't want clutter building up from many "temp" user accounts that I create.

Thanks for any assistance.

Demetrius · #2 Post by **Demetrius** » 2005-10-22 16:50

If you use deluser to delete the user it will, by default, not delete the files associated with the user. With the switch --remove-home it will delete the user's home directory. With the switch --remove-all-files, deluser will remove all files owned by that user.

See man deluser for more information.

Carlosinfl · #3 Post by **Carlosinfl** » 2005-10-22 17:11

I don't understand your response...

If I use deluser whoever it will or will not delete all the directories associated with this user?

Demetrius · #4 Post by **Demetrius** » 2005-10-22 17:57

No, by default it leaves files owned by the user behind. You can delete them yourself, or you can use deluser --remove-all-files username to have deluser delete the user's files for you.

Again, it is all explained in the man page. Try man deluser.