{"id":8798,"date":"2020-07-19T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2022-04-25T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:22:08","slug":"delete-users-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/delete-users-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Users on Ubuntu 20.04 With deluser Command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this guide, we showed you how to add users to Ubuntu 20.04 with <em>adduser<\/em> and <em>visudo<\/em> command utilities. There comes a time when you need to delete users and therefore this guide is the place that will show you how it is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that the steps here are the same for other previous <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/ubuntu\">Ubuntu<\/a> versions and other popular <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/linux\">Linux<\/a> distros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prerequisites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Because we are using Ubuntu 20.04 in this guide, you will need to have already set up one or more users with root administrative privileges. If you haven&#8217;t already, you can set this up using this <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/install-apache-mysql-php-ubuntu-20-04-lts\/\">initial server setup guide for Ubuntu 20.04<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delete Users on Ubuntu 20.04<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When users are no longer needed, it is always a good idea to delete them for administrative and security reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you want to delete the user itself, without deleting any of their files, simply type in the following <em>deluser<\/em> command as root:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">deluser newuser<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are signed in as another non-root user with <em>sudo<\/em> privileges and you want to delete yet another user, you can type:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo deluser newuser<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>There are cases where you also need to remove the user&#8217;s file usually in their home directory. You can do this by using the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo deluser --remove-home newuser<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If you had previously configured sudo privileges for the user you deleted, be sure to remove the relevant line again by typing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo visudo<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then delete the corresponding line from the <em>\/etc\/sudoers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-\">root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL\nnewuser ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL # Delete this<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This stops a new user created with the same name from accidentally inheriting <em>sudo<\/em> privileges from a previous user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about setting root privileges using <em>visudo<\/em> or creating a new user entirely from this guide on <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/add-users-ubuntu-20-04\">how to add users to Ubuntu 20.04<\/a>. There is also a comprehensive guide on <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/delete-group-linux-groupdel-delgroup\">how to delete groups in Linux<\/a> using <em>groupdel<\/em> and<em> delgroup<\/em> utilities that is a must-read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this guide, we showed you how to add users to Ubuntu 20.04 with adduser and visudo command utilities. 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