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To delete a user to your system bring up a terminal window and issue these commands:

 

To delete a user use deluser [username]

 

All this must be carried out as super user

 

To become a super user just type su - and enter the root password.

Ex.

[digerati@rh9 /]$su -

password:

[digerati@rh9 root]# userdel scrote

 

To delete the user and their home and all their stuff do:

 

[digerati@rh9 root]# userdel -r scrote

 

 

All done.