Unable to remove user: "user is currently logged in"
When trying to remove the user, it returns "user is currently logged in".
I already killed the user using pkill -KILL -u usernameHere and several other commands, but it does not help.
How can I remove this user?
Running CentOS 6.
Solution 1:
SU to the user su - username
and run kill -9 -1
as the user.
Exit the shell and try the userdel -r username
again.
Or you can check for processes from the user using lsof -u username
and kill the relevant PIDs.
Or pkill -u username
or pkill -u uid
Solution 2:
Or ps aux | grep <username>
and kill
the processes the user is running.
Solution 3:
If the above steps don't help! (Assuming you are using on the runlevel 5)
You could try the following:
- Change the runlevel to 3 (
init 3
) - log-in with other than deleting account to delete (root/other account)
userdel -r username