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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 | 24 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 b/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 index d3ed353..2e55694 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 @@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ .Op Fl y .Op Ar username .Sh DESCRIPTION -The utility +The .Nm +utility .Pp .Bl -enum .It @@ -76,7 +77,9 @@ the group is removed; this complements per-user unique groups). .El .Pp -.Nm Rmuser +The +.Nm +utility politely refuses to remove users whose uid is 0 (typically root), since certain actions (namely, killing all the user's processes, and perhaps removing the user's home directory) would cause damage to a running system. @@ -139,17 +142,19 @@ interactively asks for the user to be removed. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm -command appeared in +utility appeared in .Fx 2.2 . .\" .Sh AUTHOR .\" Guy Helmer, Ames, Iowa .Sh BUGS -.Nm Rmuser -does not comprehensively search the filesystem for all files +The +.Nm +utility does not comprehensively search the filesystem for all files owned by the removed user and remove them; to do so on a system of any size is prohibitively slow and I/O intensive. -.Nm Rmuser -also is unable to remove symbolic links that were created by the +The +.Nm +utility also is unable to remove symbolic links that were created by the user in .Pa /tmp or @@ -165,6 +170,7 @@ and .Pa /var/mail/.pop.username that are not owned by the removed user but should be removed. .Pp -.Nm Rmuser -has no knowledge of NIS (Yellow Pages), and it operates only on the +The +.Nm +utility has no knowledge of NIS (Yellow Pages), and it operates only on the local password file. |
