Comments on: How to Delete User Accounts and Their Home Directories in Linux

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:42:02 +0000

You say that adduser and useradd is the same but the manpage for useradd says it is a low level utility for adding users and admins should use useradd instead. If you check the file sizes you will notice that useradd is about 4 times bigger than adduser.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 06:54:27 +0000

In reply to Jaime Redin.

@Jaime

Use userdel command, for instance:

$ sudo userdel username

By: Jaime Redin

Jaime Redin — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:24:34 +0000

In reply to Aaron Kili.

That is correct – But, which command should I use to delete the user without deleting his/her home directory?
Thanks

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 04:09:14 +0000

In reply to Jaime Redin.

@Jaime

Deleting shared directories is not recommended. Thanks for your input.

By: Jaime Redin

Jaime Redin — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:12:46 +0000

In the ReHat version. How can I delete a user without deleting his/her home directory.
We have multiple users that share the same home directory.
Thanks