luserdel(1)

luserdel1

Delete an user

Usage

luserdel [OPTION] ... user

Overview

Deletes the user with name user.

Options

-G, --dontremovegroup

By default the user's primary group is removed if it has group name user (user's private group). This option disables this behavior.

-i, --interactive

Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.

-r, --removehome

Remove user's home directory and mail spool after deleting the user.

Exit status

The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–13

From libuser 1:0.64+git20241106~dfsg-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.