help removing user from my system

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Fri Aug 4 06:21:50 UTC 2006


· brendon <brendontoogood at gmail.com>:

> hi there all i had a account here on my system for my flat mate who has 
> moved out,  i went to the system->admin->users groups(on the desktop) 
> and deleted them as a user but there home directory still remains how do 
> i delete there home directory ie /home/nat

When you use "userdel" on the shell, you can give the "-r" option
to remove the home directory as well.

Anyway - you used some complicated GUI.

To remove the directory, delete it. On the shell, "rm" is the
command to use. You'll need root access for this.

Alexander Skwar
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