What is the command to lockout and remove Unix accounts?

[John Goetz]

Looking for the command line command.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

passwd -l can be used to lock an account. To remove a user, userdel is your boy. Man passwd, userdel for details.

[Raj D.]

Hi John ,

1. Go to SAM .
2. User .
3. Choose User.
4. Deactivate user.

Cheers,
Raj.

[Raj D.]

Hi John ,

1. To Lock.
# passwd -l username.

[ -l Lock user account. In untrusted mode this replaces the encrypted password with *.] For further, $ man passwd


2. To Remove ,
# userdel username

or
# userdel -r username [ it also removes the users home directory.]

Enjoy ,

hth,
Raj.

[Jeff_Traigle]

Just be very careful with that -r option on userdel. Be absolutely sure the home directory as defined in /etc/passwd is ok to delete. I had a system at my previous job that had one user's home directory within an application directory hierarchy. I wasn't being particularly careful that day and deleted the account along with the home directory. Caused a bit of extra work for myself as I restored the deleted directory so the other people working to get the server ready for production could continue their work. I hate when that happens.