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НАЗВА
userdel - вилучення облікового запису користувача і пов'язаних файлів
КОРОТКИЙ ОГЛЯД
userdel [options] LOGIN
ОПИС
userdel is a low level utility for removing users. On Debian, administrators should usually use
deluser(8) instead.
The userdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that refer to the user name
LOGIN. The named user must exist.
ПАРАМЕТРИ
The options which apply to the userdel command are:
-f, --force
This option forces the removal of the user account and any other requested actions, skipping any
safety checks.
Note: This option is dangerous and may leave your system in an inconsistent state.
-h, --help
Показати довідкове повідомлення і завершити роботу.
-r, --remove
Файли у домашньому каталозі користувача буде вилучено разом з самим домашнім каталогом та поштовим
буфером користувача. Файли у інших файлових системах слід знайти і вилучити вручну.
The mail spool is defined by the MAIL_DIR variable in the login.defs file.
-R, --root CHROOT_DIR
Apply changes in the CHROOT_DIR directory and use the configuration files from the CHROOT_DIR
directory. Only absolute paths are supported.
-P, --prefix PREFIX_DIR
Apply changes in the PREFIX_DIR directory and use the configuration files from the PREFIX_DIR
directory. This option does not chroot and is intended for preparing a cross-compilation target. Some
limitations: NIS and LDAP users/groups are not verified. PAM authentication is using the host files.
No SELINUX support.
-Z, --selinux-user
Вилучити усі прив'язки до користувача SELinux для облікового запису користувача для входу до системи.
НАЛАШТУВАННЯ
The following configuration variables in /etc/login.defs change the behavior of this tool:
MAIL_DIR (string)
The mail spool directory. This is needed to manipulate the mailbox when its corresponding user
account is modified or deleted. If not specified, a compile-time default is used. The parameter
CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL in /etc/default/useradd determines whether the mail spool should be created.
MAIL_FILE (string)
Defines the location of the users mail spool files relatively to their home directory.
The MAIL_DIR and MAIL_FILE variables are used by useradd, usermod, and userdel to create, move, or delete
the user's mail spool.
MAX_MEMBERS_PER_GROUP (number)
Maximum members per group entry. When the maximum is reached, a new group entry (line) is started in
/etc/group (with the same name, same password, and same GID).
The default value is 0, meaning that there are no limits in the number of members in a group.
This feature (split group) permits to limit the length of lines in the group file. This is useful to
make sure that lines for NIS groups are not larger than 1024 characters.
If you need to enforce such limit, you can use 25.
Note: split groups may not be supported by all tools (even in the Shadow toolsuite). You should not
use this variable unless you really need it.
USERDEL_CMD (string)
If defined, this command is run when removing a user. It should remove any at/cron/print jobs etc.
owned by the user to be removed (passed as the first argument).
The return code of the script is not taken into account.
Here is an example script, which removes the user's cron, at and print jobs:
#! /bin/sh
# Check for the required argument.
if [ $# != 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 username"
exit 1
fi
# Remove cron jobs.
crontab -r -u $1
# Remove at jobs.
# Note that it will remove any jobs owned by the same UID,
# even if it was shared by a different username.
AT_SPOOL_DIR=/var/spool/cron/atjobs
find $AT_SPOOL_DIR -name "[^.]*" -type f -user $1 -delete \;
# Remove print jobs.
lprm $1
# All done.
exit 0
USERGROUPS_ENAB (boolean)
If set to yes, userdel will remove the user's group if it contains no more members, and useradd will
create by default a group with the name of the user.
ФАЙЛИ
/etc/group
Відомості щодо груп облікових записів.
/etc/login.defs
Налаштування комплексу для роботи з прихованими паролями.
/etc/passwd
Відомості щодо облікових записів користувача.
/etc/shadow
Відомості щодо захищених облікових записів користувачів.
/etc/shadow-maint/userdel-pre.d/*, /etc/shadow-maint/userdel-post.d/*
Run-part files to execute during user deletion. The environment variable ACTION will be populated
with userdel and SUBJECT with the username. userdel-pre.d will be executed prior to any user
deletion. userdel-post.d will execute after user deletion. If a script exits non-zero then execution
will terminate.
/etc/subgid
Окремі для користувачів ідентифікатори підлеглих груп.
/etc/subuid
Окремі для користувачів ідентифікатори підлеглих користувачів.
ЗНАЧЕННЯ ВИХОДУ
The userdel command exits with the following values:
0
success
1
can't update password file
2
invalid command syntax
6
specified user doesn't exist
8
user currently logged in
10
can't update group file
12
can't remove home directory
ЗАСТЕРЕЖЕННЯ
userdel will not allow you to remove an account if there are running processes which belong to this
account. In that case, you may have to kill those processes or lock the user's password or account and
remove the account later. The -f option can force the deletion of this account.
Вам слід виконати перевірку усіх файлових систем вручну, щоб переконатися, щоб не лишилося жодних файлів,
які належать цьому користувачу.
Ви не зможете вилучити атрибути NIS з клієнта NIS. Виконати це завдання можна лише на сервері NIS.
If USERGROUPS_ENAB is defined to yes in /etc/login.defs, userdel will delete the group with the same name
as the user. To avoid inconsistencies in the passwd and group databases, userdel will check that this
group is not used as a primary group for another user, and will just warn without deleting the group
otherwise. The -f option can force the deletion of this group.
ДИВ. ТАКОЖ
chfn(1), chsh(1), passwd(1), login.defs(5), gpasswd(8), groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8), subgid(5),
subuid(5), useradd(8), usermod(8).
shadow-utils 4.17.4 06/09/2025 userdel(8)