Donate : Link

Medium Blog : Link

Applications : Link

The deluser command is used by system adminstrators to delete or remove user accounts from Linux systems.

By default, the deluser command deletes or removes users without deleting or removing their home directories and mail spools.

 deluser USER                                                                                                                                              remove a normal user from the system                                                                                                                    example: deluser mike    --remove-home             remove the users home directory and mail spool                                                                                --remove-all-files        remove all files owned by user                                                                                                --backup                  backup files before removing.                                                                                                 --backup-to <DIR>         target directory for the backups.                                                                                                                       Default is the current directory.                                                                                             --system                  only remove if system user  delgroup GROUP                                                                                                                                          deluser --group GROUP                                                                                                                                     remove a group from the system                                                                                                                          example: deluser --group students                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               --system                  only remove if system group                                                                                                   --only-if-empty           only remove if no members left  deluser USER GROUP                                                                                                                                        remove the user from a group                                                                                                                            example: deluser mike students                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                general options:                                                                                                                                          --quiet | -q      don't give process information to stdout                                                                                              --help | -h       usage message                                                                                                                         --version | -v    version number and copyright                                                                                                          --conf | -c FILE  use FILE as configuration file 
 ~# deluser cf Removing user 'cf' ... Warning: group 'cf' has no more members. Done.
This free site is ad-supported. Learn more
​