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stiv
Asked: 2020-08-25 07:26:52 +0800 CST

Strange user name in the login list

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On one of my servers on this is login prompt:

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I've surprisingly found one more user in the list (not available on this sample picture from the internet) with name "\". I don't see such a user in /home folder. I don't remember myself adding this user to the system. What might this be? What can I do to remove it?

user-management users

1 Answers

  1. I don't know how he got there but to remove him you just need to become root and then run this command:

    userdel [The username here]

    Note that the username might not be John Smith, instead try to get his username using this command to view the file that contains the passwords:

    cat /etc/passwd

    The username will be on the left.

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