Linux delete user command

To delete a user account on a Linux system, you can use the userdel command. This command can be used to remove a user's account and files from the system.

To delete a user account, you can use the following syntax:

$ userdel username

Replace username with the name of the user account that you want to delete.

By default, the userdel command will only delete the user's account and leave the user's home directory and files intact. To delete the user's home directory and all its contents, you can use the -r option:

$ userdel -r username

This will delete the user's account, as well as the user's home directory and all its contents.

Note that these commands will delete the user's account and files from the system, and they cannot be undone. Be careful when using these commands, as there is no way to recover the deleted user account or files.

You can also use the deluser command, which is a wrapper around the userdel command and provides additional options for deleting a user account. You can refer to the documentation for the deluser command for more information on how to use it.

These are just a few examples of how to delete a user account on a Linux system using the userdel command. The specific steps may vary depending on the distribution and version of Linux that you are using. You can refer to the documentation for the userdel command for more information on how to use it.