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remove a user in debian (unix)

August 31st, 2008 by Lawrence David

to remove a user and their home directory, use:

 sudo deluser -remove-home <user-name>

to remove all of their files on the server:

sudo deluser -remove-all-files <user-name>

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1. on 22 Dec 2011 at 9:56 am   lo

   Noted. Thank you.

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