USS_DELETE(8) AFS Command Reference USS_DELETE(8)NAMEuss_delete - Deletes a user account (deprecated)
SYNOPSIS
uss delete -user <login name>
[-mountpoint <mountpoint for user's volume>]
[-savevolume] [-verbose] [-cell <cell name>]
[-admin <administrator to authenticate>] [-dryrun]
[-skipauth] [-help]
uss d -u <login name> [-m <mountpoint for user's volume>]
[-sa] [-v] [-c <cell name>]
[-a <administrator to authenticate>] [-d] [-sk] [-h]
CAUTIONS
The uss command suite is currently designed for cells using the
obsolete Authentication Server, and therefore is primarily useful for
sites that have not yet migrated to a Kerberos version 5 KDC. The
Authentication Server and supporting commands will be removed in a
future version of OpenAFS, which may include uss unless someone who
finds it useful converts it to work with a Kerberos version 5 KDC.
DESCRIPTION
The uss delete command removes the Authentication Database and
Protection Database entries for the user named by -user argument. In
addition, it can remove the user's home volume and associated VLDB
entry, a mount point for the volume or both, depending on whether the
-mountpoint and -savevolume options are provided.
· To remove both the volume and mount point, use the -mountpoint
argument to name the user's home directory. It is best to create a
tape backup of a volume before deleting it. Note that other mount
points for the volume are not removed, if they exist.
· To remove the mount point only, provide both the -mountpoint and
-savevolume options.
· To preserve both the volume and mount point, omit the -mountpoint
argument (or both it and the -savevolume flag).
OPTIONS-user <login name>
Names the entry to delete from the Protection and Authentication
Databases.
-mountpoint <mountpoint for the user's volume>
Specifies the pathname to the user's home directory, which is
deleted from the filespace. By default, the volume referenced by
the mount point is also removed from the file server machine that
houses it, along with its Volume Location Database (VLDB) entry. To
retain the volume and VLDB entry, include the -savevolume flag.
Partial pathnames are interpreted relative to the current working
directory.
Specify the read/write path to the mount point, to avoid the
failure that results from attempting to remove a mount point from a
read-only volume. By convention, the read/write path is indicated
by placing a period before the cell name at the pathname's second
level (for example, /afs/.abc.com). For further discussion of the
concept of read/write and read-only paths through the filespace,
see the fs mkmount reference page.
-savevolume
Preserves the user's volume and VLDB entry.
-verbose
Produces on the standard output stream a detailed trace of the
command's execution. If this argument is omitted, only warnings and
error messages appear.
-cell <cell name>
Specifies the cell in which to run the command. For more details,
see uss(8).
-admin <administrator to authenticate>
Specifies the AFS user name under which to establish authenticated
connections to the AFS server processes that maintain the various
components of a user account. For more details, see uss(8).
-dryrun
Reports actions that the command interpreter needs to perform while
executing the command, without actually performing them. For more
details, see uss(8).
-skipauth
Prevents authentication with the AFS Authentication Server,
allowing a site using Kerberos to substitute that form of
authentication.
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options
are ignored.
EXAMPLES
The following command removes smith's user account from the "abc.com"
cell. The -savevolume argument retains the "user.smith" volume on its
file server machine.
% uss delete smith -mountpoint /afs/abc.com/usr/smith -savevolume
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer (or the user named by -admin argument) must belong to the
system:administrators group in the Protection Database, must have the
"ADMIN" flag turned on in his or her Authentication Database entry, and
must have at least "a" (administer) and "d" (delete) permissions on the
access control list (ACL) of the mount point's parent directory. If the
-savevolume flag is not included, the issuer must also be listed in the
/usr/afs/etc/UserList file.
SEE ALSOUserList(5), fs_mkmount(1), uss(8)COPYRIGHT
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