delete user

pantera · 05-05-2005, 12:36 AM

i used the user manager in fc3 to delete the user ......the users home directory is deleted but still the user appears in the user manager's list of users........another problem is that when i itried to assign other groups to another user it didt add the other groups to the user
can i do all these in command line?

heema · 05-05-2005, 02:07 AM

the great thing about linux is that you could do almost anything from the commandline

to delete a user :
su
<your root password>
userdel -r username

-r
Files in the user's home directory will be removed along with the home directory itself and the user's mail spool. Files located in other file systems will have to be searched for and deleted manually.

pantera · 05-06-2005, 04:37 AM

i did userdel -r <username>
but it showed me
bash: userdel: command not found

mousebubble · 05-06-2005, 05:06 AM

try

su -

instead of just su

pantera · 05-06-2005, 05:27 AM

i did delete the user but in the gui user manager the deleted user still exists

pantera · 05-06-2005, 06:20 AM

i tried to addnew user(using useradd) but it said
useradd: cannot rewrite password file

cwmaher · 09-16-2005, 05:49 AM

I'm getting a similar problem when I try to add or delete a user:

userdel: cannot rewrite password file
userdel: cannot rewrite shadow password file

There are no .lock files in /etc

Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers,
Ciaran

cwmaher · 09-16-2005, 06:19 AM

Just been lookin around abit more, does anybody know if it ould have anything to do with having SE enabled?

sum1else · 09-16-2005, 07:11 PM

ya thats probably your whole problem right there..
i disabled SE after having more problems than i can remember with it and haven't had a prob since.

cwmaher · 09-20-2005, 06:34 AM

SE was already disabled.

Found out the problem, my root partition was nearly full, I moved a few files and all is good again.

Cheers,
Ciarán