Home directory remain intact after removing user using SAM

[jamil]

I'm facing a problem with SAM. it seems that when i'm using SAM to remove user, and selecting the remove from all local disk, the home directory will remail intact if there is a root owned file in the home directory of the user. Anybody know how to rectify this or ever encounter this problem. I'll be glad to answer any question if the more explanation is required. Thanks.

[R. Sri Ram Kishore_1]

Take a look at:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=674519

HTH.
Regards,
Sri Ram

[R. Sri Ram Kishore_1]

Hi,

Oops! Looks like I pointed you to your own question (that you asked last month)! Am sorry.

Regards,
Sri Ram

[Muthukumar_5]

You are using setting as "Remove from all local disk".

1. Can you able to delete the home directory with root file using as,

userdel -r

Note: Userlogin must not login at that time, else it will prompt warning and not do action there.

2. what is there in /etc/sam/rmfiles.excl and /etc/sam/rmuser.excl files. We can make some files not to be deleted using sam with /etc/sam/rmfiles.excl

3. Try with another two options on sam home directory deletion there.

[Cheryl Griffin]

SAM will only remove the user files. Since root owns the file, SAM is protecting the file. There are normally no root owned files in a non-root user's directory.

This is not a bug but by design.

To prevent the issue, check for root owned files prior to removing the user.

You will be warned of any issues by viewing the /var/sam/sam_remove.log as file removal and directory removal is logged.

[jamil]

Thanks all for the reply,Any way to disable this feature or overwrite it, so that whenever my helpdesk people remove users using SAM, it will promptly remove everything including the root owned files in the home directory.