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removing a user

Asked by srikumar

I tried to add a user name "staff" using
sudo adduser staff - in the terminal
and the reply was that the user "staff" already exists.
However the user "staff" does not appear in the login screen.

So I want to remove the user "staff"
What is the command for this.

any suggestions ?
thank you
srikumar

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Lalatendu Mohanty (then4way) said : 		#1

sudo deluser username

I hope below link will help

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/user-management.html

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

Check existence of a folder /home/staff.
On some Unix system, user is removed from user database, but not its home directory, which must be done manually.

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srikumar (ssrikumar) said : 		#3

Could we please close this question
Thank you
srikumar

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srikumar (ssrikumar) said : 		#4

question is closed