RE: [cobalt-users] What happens to folders and email when you delete a user?

["Colin J. Raven" <duiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

|>I am running a Qube 3 Pro.  I am a newbie at Linix and do all
|>my admin
|>stuff via the browser interface.  What happens to the user's
|>email and
|>file folders when I delete the user from the user list?  If they are
|>left on the Qube, how are they named so I can manually delete
|>them?

Delete the user and their home directory, files etc. are g.o.n.e. -
forever.
[Tip] If you are in doubt, suspend the user and that way if the person
"returns" (you thought maybe they were fired for example) simply
reactivate their account and everything is still there.
Remember....delete is permanent, and it's total.

|> I do have a telnet program available to me.
You do?? Well then be rid of it. Install the ssh package and use an ssh
client like Putty (free) or Secure CRT (about 100 bucks IIRC, or at
least that's what mine was anyway, it may be more now)
Once you have proved ssh starts at boot, disable telnet access to the
machine for all time. It's a vile and detestable security risk. Kinda
like giving the key to your wife's chastity belt (for safekeeping
purposes only of course) to the newly paroled felon who's doing your
gardening.
Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven