In Ubuntu, you can delete users using shell commands or the GUI tool.
Deleting users using the GUI tool
To delete users using the GUI tool, click on the “System Setting” button on the left side of your screen. In the window that opens type “user“. This should find the GUI tool called “User accounts“:
In the window that opens, click on the “Unlock” button in the upper right corner. You will need to provide the superuser password.
Now, click the minus button in the lower left corner. This opens up a new window:
Choose whether you want to keep the user’s files. If you don’t want to keep them, click the “Delete files” button. And that’s it! The user is removed from the system.
Deleting users using the deluser command
You can use the shell command deluser to delete a user. Here is an example:
NOTE – some books mention userdel as a utility to delete users. In Debian, deluser is the front end to the userdel and the recommended way to delete user. Even the man page for userdel says that you should use deluser instead: “On Debian, administrators should usually use deluser instead”.
Deleting users using the GUI tool
To delete users using the GUI tool, click on the “System Setting” button on the left side of your screen. In the window that opens type “user“. This should find the GUI tool called “User accounts“:
In the window that opens, click on the “Unlock” button in the upper right corner. You will need to provide the superuser password.
Now, click the minus button in the lower left corner. This opens up a new window:
Choose whether you want to keep the user’s files. If you don’t want to keep them, click the “Delete files” button. And that’s it! The user is removed from the system.
Deleting users using the deluser command
You can use the shell command deluser to delete a user. Here is an example:
NOTE – some books mention userdel as a utility to delete users. In Debian, deluser is the front end to the userdel and the recommended way to delete user. Even the man page for userdel says that you should use deluser instead: “On Debian, administrators should usually use deluser instead”.
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