userdel [-r] [-S repository] [-q qualifier] login
The userdel utility deletes a user account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file system.
An administrator must be granted the User Management Profile to be able to delete a user.
The following options are supported:
The name of a host or netgroup which qualifies which attributes to delete. The prefix @ is required to indicate that the qualifier is a netgroup name. The –q option is only valid if the user account is maintained in the LDAP name service. Only the attributes associated with the qualifier are deleted. The account and other attributes are not affected unless this option is omitted. In that case, all qualified attributes are also deleted.
Remove the user's home directory from the system. This directory must exist. The files and directories under the home directory will no longer be accessible following successful execution of the command. A ZFS dataset that was created for the user's home directory will be removed. An auto_home entry that was added for the user will be deleted.
The valid repositories are files, ldap. The repository specifies which name service will be updated. The default repository is files.
The following operands are supported:
An existing login name to be deleted.
The following exit values are returned:
Successful completion.
Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the userdel command is displayed.
The account to be removed does not exist.
The account to be removed is in use.
Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login is removed from the /etc/passwd file.
Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory.
system password file
system file contain users' encrypted passwords and related information
system file containing group definitions
system file containing additional user attributes
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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auths(1), passwd(1), profiles(1), roles(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M), useradd(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5)
The userdel utility deletes an account definition that is in the group, passwd, shadow, and user_attr databases in the files or ldap repository.