User Accounts

ronin16 · 11-14-2007, 04:18 PM

What command do you run to check what user accounts are on a Red Hat Enterprise Server? How do you delete one?

Paul

Peacedog · 11-14-2007, 05:43 PM

Hi ronin16, Welcome to lq. To view all accounts issue

Code:

cat /etc/passwd

for managing accounts have a look here.
Good luck. ;-)

ronin16 · 11-15-2007, 12:08 AM

Peacedog,

Thanks.

Paul

zebias · 11-15-2007, 02:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronin16

What command do you run to check what user accounts are on a Red Hat Enterprise Server? How do you delete one?

Paul

ls /home

lists the users you have on the server

userdel username
to delete a user NB u have to be logged in as root