roledel(1M) System Administration Commands roledel(1M)NAMEroledel - delete a role's login from the system
SYNOPSISroledel [-r] role
DESCRIPTION
The roledel utility deletes a role account from the system and makes
the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file
system. roledel also removes the role from each user's list of assum‐
able roles.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-r Remove the role's home directory from the system. This directory
must exist. The files and directories under the home directory
will no longer be accessible following successful execution of
the command.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
role An existing role name to be deleted.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
2 Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the roledel command
is displayed.
6 The account to be removed does not exist.
8 The account to be removed is in use.
10 Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login
is removed from the /etc/passwd file.
12 Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory.
FILES
/etc/passwd system password file
/etc/shadow system file containing roles' encrypted passwords and
related information
/etc/group system file containing group definitions
/etc/user_attr system file containing additional role attributes
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcs │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOauths(1), passwd(1), profiles(1), roles(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M),
groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M), user‐
add(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4),
user_attr(4), attributes(5)NOTES
The roledel utility only deletes an account definition that is in the
local /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/user_attr file.
file. If a network name service such as NIS or NIS+ is being used to
supplement the local /etc/passwd file with additional entries, roledel
cannot change information supplied by the network name service.
SunOS 5.11 8 Sep 1999 roledel(1M)