---
name: "userconf"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "linuxconf"
version: "1.26r4-2"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/userconf/8"
---

# userconf(8)

Manage user accounts

## NAME

userconf - Manage user accounts

## SYNOPSIS

**userconf**\
 **userconf options**

## DESCRIPTION

*userconf* is *Linuxconf* user accounts management component. Without argument, it presents its main menu.

,SH OPTIONS

- *--adduser userid group username shell*

  add a new user account with the specified parameters. Do not forget to quote the username if it contains spaces. The interest of using this command over command such as *useradd* (8) is the *accounts and policies* settings. You end up with the same behavior when creating accounts interactivly. Namely, you get

  The post-create script is executed.\
   The home is created according to the specification recorded with the group.

  Note that on most distribution, useradd is called internally.

- *--addgroup group*

  add a new group.

- *--deluser userid \[ --archive \| --deldata \| --keepdata \]*

  It deletes a user account. The extra option let you control how the user data (the home and the mail inbox) are processed.

  Archiving means all the data will be "tared" in the old-accounts sub-directory (located in the same directory as the user home directory). The data is archived in a file which is name after the userid and the date. This way, a user account may be created and delete several time and all archives are preserved. You may want to clean up the archive once in a while, potentially twice a year.

  If the archiving is successful, then all the data and home directory will be deleted.

  The *--deldata* option deletes both the home directory and the mail inbox. Nothing is kept.

  The *--keepdata* option keeps everything in place.

- *--delgroup group*

  delete a group.

- *--help*

  present the command line options sumary.

## SEE ALSO

[**linuxconf**(8)](/linuxconf/8.md)