How to Delete a Local User

When a user is deleted from the system, the administrator must ensure that the user's home directory and any objects owned by that user are also deleted. As an alternative to deleting objects owned by the user, the administrator may change the ownership of these objects to another user who is defined on the system.

The administrator must also ensure that all batch jobs still to run that are associated with the deleted user are also deleted. The administrator must ensure that there are no objects or processes belonging to a deleted user that remain on the system.

The tsolconvert utility requires the root role to be available. Do not delete the install user until you have completed all the steps required on a Trusted Solaris 8 system. See "How to Save and Restore Trusted Solaris Databases" for more information on converting Trusted Solaris 7 to Trusted Solaris 8 databases.

To Delete the install User

1. In the admin role, label ADMIN_LOW, in the Solaris Management Console, choose the this_host: Scope=Files, Policy=TSOL, and then select User Accounts.

   The user "install" is defined locally.

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   Note -

   If toolbox icons display as red stop signs, the toolboxes will not load. To load them, do Step 4.

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2. Click the user to be deleted and click the Delete button.

   For the user install, you do not have mail files to delete. Other local users may have home directories and mail files to delete.