 | Note |
|---|
| | There are ways to retain the files associated with an account, but any
files that are deleted are gone and effectively unrecoverable. Take
care when using this option!
|
To delete an account:
Open => => =>
.
On the User accounts screen (see Figure 14-4), select the account you wish to
delete.
At the bottom of the User information screen,
select Del to delete the account.
Linuxconf will then prompt you with a
list of options.
The default option is to archive the account's data. The archive
option has the following effects:
It removes the user from the user accounts list.
It takes everything contained in the user's home directory and
archives it (using tar and gzip compression), storing the resulting
file in the /default_home_directory/oldaccounts
directory. For an account named
useraccount the
filename would be similar to:
useraccount-2000-01-10-497.tar.gz |
The date indicates when the account was deleted, and the number
following it is the ID of the process that actually performed the
deletion. The oldaccounts directory, created
automatically the first time you remove a user account this way, is
put in the same place as all of your user directories.
Files not contained in the user's home directory, but owned by that
user remain. The file is owned by the deleted account's user ID
(UID). If you create a new account and specifically assign it the
UID of a deleted account, it will then become the owner of any
remaining files.
Selecting Delete the account's data on the
Deleting account
<accountname> screen (see
Figure 14-6) will:
Remove the user from the user accounts list.
Remove the user's home directory and all its contents.
| Note |
|---|
| | Files not contained in the user's home directory, but owned by that
user, will remain on the system. The file will still be owned by the
deleted account's user ID (UID). If you create a new account and
specifically assign it the UID of a deleted account, it will then
become the owner of any such "orphaned" files.
|
Selecting Leave the account's data in place on the
Deleting account
<accountname> screen (see
Figure 14-6) will:
Remove the user from the user accounts list.
Leave the user's home directory (with all its files) in place.
| Note |
|---|
| | Files and directories owned by the deleted account's user ID (UID)
will remain on the system. If you create a new account and
specifically assign it the UID of a deleted account, it will then
become the owner of these "orphaned" files.
|
|
Network sites:
|
