userdel

- delete a user's login from the system

Synopsis

userdel [-r] [-S repository] login

Description

The userdel utility deletes a user account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file system.

An administrator must be granted the User Management Profile to be able to delete a user.

Options

The following options are supported:

-r

Remove the user's home directory from the system. This directory must exist. The files and directories under the home directory will no longer be accessible following successful execution of the command. A ZFS dataset that was created for the user's home directory will be removed. An auto_home entry that was added for the user will be deleted.

-S repository

The valid repositories are files, ldap. The repository specifies which name service will be updated. The default repository is files.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

login

An existing login name to be deleted.

Exit Status

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

2

Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the userdel command is displayed.

6

The account to be removed does not exist.

8

The account to be removed is in use.

10

Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login is removed from the /etc/passwd file.

12

Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory.

Files

/etc/passwd

system password file

/etc/shadow

system file contain users' encrypted passwords and related information

/etc/group

system file containing group definitions

/etc/user_attr

system file containing additional user attributes

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

auths(1), passwd(1), profiles(1), roles(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M), useradd(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5)

Notes

The userdel utility deletes an account definition that is in the group, passwd, shadow, and user_attr databases in the files or ldap repository.