- These instructions are intended specifically for removing a user on CentOS 6.
- I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed CentOS 6 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.
It’s just one simple command to add a user. In this case, we’re adding a user called
userdel mynewuser
If you want to remove all of the files for the user, then use -r:
userdel -r mynewuser
For a refresher on editing files with vim see: New User Tutorial: Overview of the Vim Text Editor
visudo
Find the following code:
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
mynewuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
In this case, we’re removing root privileges from the user
mynewuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
Then exit and save the file with the command
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