On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Monty Lilburn wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > >Hi. How can I delete a user account? I have several user accounts on this box that are no longer used. > > I tried adduser --remove user and that didn't work. Would anyone have any suggestions on this? > > > Igor: > > I have noticed that several of your posts to this list involve getting > help for linux commands and linux command sintax. You will find that the > "man", "info" and "help" commands can be very useful in solving most of > your command troubles. Also entering your "help question" into a > search-engine such as http://www.google.com will often yield success. I would second this, while of course not discouraging questions to the list. I have found, as an admin, that knowing everything is neither desirable or even possible, but to know *where* to find what you need is vital. With this in mind, I would direct you to the apropos command. It searches the manpath and returns the name sections of any manpages which contain the word you're searching for. For example, see the name section of the manpage for the man command. man(1) man(1) NAME man - format and display the on-line manual pages manpath - determine user's search path for man pages can be found by typing such things as apropos pages apropos manpath You may want to pipe this output through a pager like less or similar as the output can be quite long if your search is general, but you can then use the less search facility to help you a little more. I find this command invaluable, even if it produces a lot of extraneous output. HTH -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808
