Bill Mitchell writes: >>> * what about files owned by this user in other >> directories? (Shared projects, etc.) >> >>We tend to leave them as-is, which I'm not sure is smart. On the >>other hand, a find from / is expensive on a system with lots of >>disk... > >Finding the files and expunging them
Um, I was thinking more of arranging for them to be changed to another uid, or at least telling the sysadmin they exist - leaving them as they are risks trouble when some new user is created. If I leave the company I work for I'm sure they won't want to delete all the files I worked on in shared directories. >should probably be an option for "deluser" (which, IMO, should be >"adduser -d" or "adduser --delete"). *shrug* >Let the sysadmin using it decide whether that's too expensive for >him, in his situation. Don't make the decision for him and expect him >to like it. Agreed. -- Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/