Tutorial: How to delete a normal user account in Ubuntu system?

A lot of users have been added to the Ubuntu system. I want to delete the unused users. How to delete them? Let’s take a look at the detailed tutorial below.

1. Open the terminal command line and use theuserdel commandto delete the specified user.Be sure to add the sudo permission command,as shown in the figure below

2. When deleting,must pay attention to thein the administrator directory.Ordinary users do not have this permission, as shown in the figure below

3. After the deletion command is executed, how to determine whether it has been truly deleted? Next we use thecat commandto open the passwd file, as shown in the figure below

4. We see that the deleted user information is no longer in the

passwd file, which proves that the user has been deleted, as shown in the figure below

5. Then we enter

the home folder,what you can see is the deleted user,its folder has not been deleted, as shown in the figure below

6. If you also want to delete the user’s folder,

need to bring therparameter, as shown in the figure below prompt, but you must pay attention when performing this operation

7. In summary, to delete a user in Ubuntu mainly uses the

userdel command,pay attention to the use of the parameter r.

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