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How to delete user?

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Name: Ben
Date: January 6, 2002 at 11:11:30 Pacific
Comment:

I'm running FreeBSD and I accidentally
created a user that I wanna delete. How do
I do this? I have access to the root and
everything. Please help!



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Response Number 1
Name: Ben
Date: January 6, 2002 at 11:16:56 Pacific
Reply:

Never mind I got it.


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Response Number 2
Name: hdo
Date: January 8, 2002 at 05:37:24 Pacific
Reply:

delete user with

$userdel -r username

where -r is for removing the entire directory structure of that user.

otherewise try

$deluser username

similar commands...


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