HP UX Internet Express Software manual Deleting User Accounts, Displaying User Account Information

Figure 11 Displaying User Account Information

Note:

On a system using the Network Information Services (NIS), the names of UNIX system accounts (or groups) are not displayed in the User Account Names (or User Account Groups) list box, nor will any NIS user information be included in the output when you click on Submit.

Deleting User Accounts

You can deny a user access to the system by deleting a user's account. You can also specify the removal of the home and mail directories associated with the deleted account.

Notes:

You cannot use the Administration utility to delete a Tru64 UNIX user that has a UID value of less than 105. You also cannot delete a user account while that user is logged in, or delete the Internet Express administrator's account, iass. For more information on managing Tru64 UNIX system user accounts, see the Tru64 UNIX System Administration manual.

Internet Express accounts and passwords are stored in the ~iass/.users.list file. Entries are not automatically removed from this file when you delete an account. If you do not periodically remove obsolete entries, the .users.list file can become large. See Section : Purging Obsolete Passwords for information on how to purge obsolete entries from this file.

To deny access to the account for a period of time without deleting all of the files associated with that account, change the account password rather than deleting the account itself. For more information on changing the password, see Section : Changing the Password for an Account.

If you want to reuse an account, delete the account and its directories and then re-create the account. With this process, you automatically delete all of the previous user's files and avoid the possibility of private or personal files becoming available to the new user of the account.

Caution:

When you delete a user account, the directories and files for that account cannot be restored (unless the directories and files were previously backed up).

To delete one or more user accounts, follow these steps:

1.From the Manage Users menu, choose Delete User Accounts.

2.Search for the user accounts you want to delete. (See Section : Searching for User Accounts for instructions on searching for user accounts.)

3.To display user account information, use one of the following methods:

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