PURGEUSER

Operation Notes

Account managers use the PURGEUSER command to delete a user from an account. You are asked to verify the command only when it is executed during a session, and not from a job. To do so, respond YES or NO to the message:

  USER user TO BE PURGED?  (YES/NO)

An attempt to purge a user currently logged on to the system fails, and an explanatory message is displayed:

  IN USE: CAN'T BE PURGED.

The user can only be purged if the user is not logged on when the PURGEUSER command is issued. An attempt to purge MANAGER.SYS always fails, since this user can never be purged if the user is logged onto the system.

If files created by a purged user remain after the user is purged from the system, the system manager can remove them with the PURGEACCT command, or the account manager can eliminate them by executing PURGEGROUP.

Use

This command may be issued from a session, job, program, or in BREAK. Pressing Break has no effect on this command.

To execute this command, the account must be the same as the logon account of the command issuer unless that user has system manager (SM) capability.

Example

To remove a user named USER1, enter:

  PURGEUSER USER1
  USER1 TO BE PURGED? YES