{"id":2777,"date":"2022-05-31T06:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T06:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/how-do-i-delete-a-user-in-debian-answer-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T06:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T06:11:32","slug":"how-do-i-delete-a-user-in-debian-answer-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/how-do-i-delete-a-user-in-debian-answer-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I delete a user in Debian? &#8211; [Answer] 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content clear\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Debian <\/strong>10, the <strong>deluser <\/strong>command must be used to <strong>remove <\/strong>a user. Run the <strong>deluser <\/strong>command with the \u2013remove-home parameter to delete a user\u2019s home directory. $ <strong>sudo deluser <\/strong>\u2013remove-home &lt;username&gt; <strong>nLooking <\/strong>for files to <strong>backup<\/strong>\/delete <strong>nRemoving <\/strong>user \u2018<strong>user<\/strong>\u2018 n<\/p>\n<h2>How to delete a user in Debian<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kXXyIoaPQpI?feature=oembed\" title=\"How to delete a user in Debian\" width=\"1200\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Linux Commands for Beginners<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"900\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zyjTMRQo0Mw?feature=oembed\" title=\"Linux Commands for Beginners (Old Version) 13 - Removing Users\" width=\"1200\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\">\n<div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1630642563835\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">How do I delete a user in Debian?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">On <strong>Debian <\/strong>10, the <strong>deluser <\/strong>command must be used to <strong>remove <\/strong>a user. Run the <strong>deluser <\/strong>command with the \u2013remove-home parameter to delete a user\u2019s home directory. $ <strong>sudo deluser <\/strong>\u2013remove-home &lt;username&gt; <strong>nLooking <\/strong>for files to <strong>backup<\/strong>\/delete <strong>nRemoving <\/strong>user \u2018<strong>user<\/strong>\u2018 n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1630642577299\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">How do I remove a user from Debian 10?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">On <strong>Debian <\/strong>10, you must use the <strong>deluser <\/strong>command to delete a user. The <strong>deluser <\/strong>command can be used with the \u2013remove-home option to remove a user\u2019s home directory. $ <strong>sudo deluser <\/strong>\u2013remove-<strong>home <\/strong>username Looking for files to back up\/delete <strong>Removing <\/strong>user \u2018user\u2019 This is a <strong>warning<\/strong>: group \u2018user\u2019 has no <strong>more individuals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1630642577892\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">How do add and remove users in Linux?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">By default, <strong>useradd creates <\/strong>a user without creating a home <strong>directory<\/strong>. As a result, we\u2019ve used them switch to enable <strong>useradd <\/strong>to generate a home folder. It <strong>automatically <\/strong>generates john by assigning a distinct <strong>user ID <\/strong>for the person and adding the <strong>person\u2019s information <\/strong>to the \/etc\/<strong>passwd <\/strong>file behind the <strong>scenes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 -->\n<\/div \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer On Debian 10, the deluser command must be used to remove a user. Run the deluser command with the \u2013remove-home parameter to delete a user\u2019s home directory. $ sudo deluser \u2013remove-home &lt;username&gt; nLooking for files to backup\/delete nRemoving user \u2018user\u2018 n How to delete a user in Debian Linux Commands for Beginners How do &#8230; <a title=\"How do I delete a user in Debian? &#8211; [Answer] 2022\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/how-do-i-delete-a-user-in-debian-answer-2022\/\" aria-label=\"More on How do I delete a user in Debian? &#8211; [Answer] 2022\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droidweekly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}