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TheFinnishOne

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Registered: 2025-07-18

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[SOLVED] How do I remove multiple accounts at the same time?

When trying to make guest sessions to work, I accidentally made multiple guest accounts that start with "guest-" and 6 random letters and numbers. They filled my available IDs, so I need to remove them. How do I remove all accounts starting with "guest-"? I tried "userdel guest-*" but it didn't work.

Last edited by TheFinnishOne (2025-07-23 21:08:16)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I remove multiple accounts at the same time?

Sanity check:

for GUEST in $(awk -F: '/guest-/{print $1}' /etc/passwd); do echo "userdel $GUEST"; done

Action:

for GUEST in $(awk -F: '/guest-/{print $1}' /etc/passwd); do userdel $GUEST; done

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TheFinnishOne

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Registered: 2025-07-18

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I remove multiple accounts at the same time?

This worked, thanks! I need to start learning shell scripting more...