On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:49:32PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > So, I've noticed that my home machine has some accounts lying around > > that are certainly unused -- I set up a user so that a friend could > > use my disk space, that sort of thing. > > > > Got me thinking ... okay, you use 'userdel -r foo', and it gets rid of > > the passwd entry, home directory, and mailspool ... > > > > It's also occured to me that the user may have cron jobs installed. > > What other things might a user have that aren't automagically handled? > > > > -- > > monique > > PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. > > Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! > > How about this command: find / -user user > This would return all files owned by that user > And if you want to search in all files for that user name: > grep -inR user / >
You can user deluser (configuration in /etc/deluser.conf) to remove the files owned by the user anywhere on the system. -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -Sacher M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
