--- Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Suppose an existing user 'rony' was removed, and a new user called 'rony' was created, how will the system remove the older 'rony' and allot the existing ~rony directory to the new 'rony'

When you "remove" a user, you have to remove the user's entry in the passwd, shadow, group and gshadow files (using vipw and vigr commands). After that you have to manually delete /home/rony and /var/spool/mail/rony. Only after completing these steps, is the user rony removed completely from the system.

If you don't remove /home/rony and simply create a new user called rony again, the system allocates the directory to this user.

Regards, Nadiem.

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