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authorPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-14 14:47:15 +0000
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The .Nm utility
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@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@
.Op Fl y
.Op Ar username
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The utility
+The
.Nm
+utility
.Pp
.Bl -enum
.It
@@ -76,7 +77,9 @@ the group is removed; this complements
per-user unique groups).
.El
.Pp
-.Nm Rmuser
+The
+.Nm
+utility
politely refuses to remove users whose uid is 0 (typically root), since
certain actions (namely, killing all the user's processes, and perhaps
removing the user's home directory) would cause damage to a running system.
@@ -139,17 +142,19 @@ interactively asks for the user to be removed.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
-command appeared in
+utility appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
.\" .Sh AUTHOR
.\" Guy Helmer, Ames, Iowa
.Sh BUGS
-.Nm Rmuser
-does not comprehensively search the filesystem for all files
+The
+.Nm
+utility does not comprehensively search the filesystem for all files
owned by the removed user and remove them; to do so on a system
of any size is prohibitively slow and I/O intensive.
-.Nm Rmuser
-also is unable to remove symbolic links that were created by the
+The
+.Nm
+utility also is unable to remove symbolic links that were created by the
user in
.Pa /tmp
or
@@ -165,6 +170,7 @@ and
.Pa /var/mail/.pop.username
that are not owned by the removed user but should be removed.
.Pp
-.Nm Rmuser
-has no knowledge of NIS (Yellow Pages), and it operates only on the
+The
+.Nm
+utility has no knowledge of NIS (Yellow Pages), and it operates only on the
local password file.