1.\" Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997 2.\" Guy Helmer, Ames, Iowa 50014. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer as 9.\" the first lines of this file unmodified. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 14.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GUY HELMER ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 18.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 19.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL GUY HELMER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 20.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 21.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 22.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 23.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 24.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" $FreeBSD$ 28.\" 29.Dd February 23, 1997 30.Dt RMUSER 8 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm rmuser 34.Nd removes users from the system 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36.Nm 37.Op Fl y 38.Op Ar username 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The utility 41.Nm 42.Pp 43.Bl -enum 44.It 45Removes the user's 46.Xr crontab 1 47entry (if any). 48.It 49Removes any 50.Xr at 1 51jobs belonging to the user. 52.It 53Sends a SIGKILL signal to all processes owned by the user. 54.It 55Removes the user from the system's local password file. 56.It 57Removes the user's home directory (if it is owned by the user), 58including handling of symbolic links in the path to the actual home 59directory. 60.It 61Removes the incoming mail and pop daemon mail files belonging to the 62user from 63.Pa /var/mail . 64.It 65Removes all files owned by the user from 66.Pa /tmp , 67.Pa /var/tmp , 68and 69.Pa /var/tmp/vi.recover . 70.It 71Removes the username from all groups to which it belongs in 72.Pa /etc/group . 73(If a group becomes empty and the group name is the same as the username, 74the group is removed; this complements 75.Xr adduser 8 's 76per-user unique groups). 77.El 78.Pp 79.Nm Rmuser 80politely refuses to remove users whose uid is 0 (typically root), since 81certain actions (namely, killing all the user's processes, and perhaps 82removing the user's home directory) would cause damage to a running system. 83If it is necessary to remove a user whose uid is 0, see 84.Xr vipw 8 85for information on directly editing the password file, by which the desired 86user's 87.Xr passwd 5 88entry may be removed manually. 89.Pp 90If not running "affirmatively" (i.e., option 91.Fl y 92is not specified), 93.Nm 94shows the selected user's password file entry and asks for confirmation 95that you wish to remove the user. If the user's home directory is owned 96by the user, 97.Nm 98asks whether you wish to remove the user's home directory and everything 99below. 100.Pp 101As 102.Nm 103operates, it informs the user regarding the current activity. If any 104errors occur, they are posted to standard error and, if it is possible for 105.Nm 106to continue, it will. 107.Pp 108Available options: 109.Pp 110.Bl -tag -width username 111.It Fl y 112Affirm - any question that would be asked is answered implicitly in 113the affirmative (i.e., yes). A username must also be specified on the 114command line if this option is used. 115.It Ar \&username 116Identifies the user to be removed; if not present, 117.Nm 118interactively asks for the user to be removed. 119.Sh FILES 120.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwd -compact 121.It Pa /etc/master.passwd 122.It Pa /etc/passwd 123.It Pa /etc/group 124.It Pa /etc/spwd.db 125.It Pa /etc/pwd.db 126.El 127.Sh SEE ALSO 128.Xr at 1 , 129.Xr chpass 1 , 130.Xr crontab 1 , 131.Xr finger 1 , 132.Xr passwd 1 , 133.Xr group 5 , 134.Xr passwd 5 , 135.Xr adduser 8 , 136.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 , 137.Xr vipw 8 138.Sh HISTORY 139The 140.Nm 141command appeared in 142.Fx 2.2 . 143.\" .Sh AUTHOR 144.\" Guy Helmer, Ames, Iowa 145.Sh BUGS 146.Nm Rmuser 147does not comprehensively search the filesystem for all files 148owned by the removed user and remove them; to do so on a system 149of any size is prohibitively slow and I/O intensive. 150.Nm Rmuser 151also is unable to remove symbolic links that were created by the 152user in 153.Pa /tmp 154or 155.Pa /var/tmp 156as symbolic links on 4.4BSD filesystems do not contain information 157as to who created them. Also, there may be other files created in 158.Pa /var/mail 159other than 160.Pa /var/mail/username 161and 162.Pa /var/mail/.pop.username 163that are not owned by the removed user but should be removed. 164.Pp 165.Nm Rmuser 166has no knowledge of NIS (Yellow Pages), and it operates only on the 167local password file. 168