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Deleting users

        Similarly, deleting users can be accomplished with the commands userdel or deluser depending on what software was installed on the system.

    If you'd like to temporarily ``disable'' a user from logging into the system (without deleting the user's account), you can simply prepend an asterisk (`` *'') to the password field in /etc/passwd. For example, changing kiwi's /etc/passwd entry to

will restrict kiwi from logging in.



Ross Biro
Tue May 23 13:39:28 PDT 1995