deluser(1M)

deluser -- remove a login from the system

Synopsis

deluser login_name Yes|No logdir

deluser is used to remove a user ID from the system. Once the ID has been removed, its owner will no longer have access to the system.

login_name

This is the login name for the user account that's being removed from the system.

Yes | No

This argument determines whether or not the user's files should be saved when his or her login name is removed.

If Yes is specified, all files in the user's home directory are copied to /lost+found/login_name before the home directory is removed.

If No is specified, the files in $HOME are not removed.

logdir

This is the user's home directory.