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How can I completely delete a user added using adduser, removing every single thing as if the user never existed. I know the home directory is one of them, but is there anything else outside of that which needs to be deleted? In other words, anything not explicitly created by the user.

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    Try the deluser command. see the man page (man deluser) but --remote-all-files option should do it. Check the home dir afterwards to ensure it's gone (should be but a root owned file might prevent directories from being deleted). – ubfan1 Feb 26 '25 at 00:44
  • Before you start, do sudo find / -user badguy -print0 > badguy.0.files;echo >>badguy.0.files, and, when you "finish" do xargs -0 -r < badguy.0.files sudo rm -f -v |& tee badguy.log to remove everything (or get error messages for further processing). – waltinator Feb 26 '25 at 01:22

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