On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 17:49, bruce wrote: > hey.. > > a simple quesiton that i can't seem to find the answer for... > > how do i as the root..kill a user!!! > > i can do "users" and get a list of the users..but how do i kill/terminate > one...??? > to cleanly and securely terminate a user, you must: 1. find all files belonging to that user find / -user <username> -print >user.files 2. decide which files you should remove 3. Maybe you will need to do the same for the user's group 4. userdel will remove the user from the /etc/passwd and shadow files and groupdel will do so for a group -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
