II. How to Remove (Delete) a User on Fedora 23
Pre-Flight Check
- These instructions are intended specifically for removing a user on Fedora 23. The process on most other Linux operating systems is identical.
- For this tutorial, we’ll be using a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 23 server, logged in as root.
Step #1: Delete the User
In this case, we’re removing the user we added in How To Add a User and Grant Root Privileges on Fedora 23, newuser:
userdel newuser
If you want to remove the user and all of the user’s files as well, you can include the “-r” flag:
userdel -r newuser
Step 2: Remove the User’s Root Privileges
Run the command:
visudo
And find the following code:
## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
newuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
In this case, we’re removing root privileges from the user “newuser”, so remove the following line:
newuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
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