[gnome-user-docs] g-h/user-delete: Rewrote for GNOME 3, final
- From: Shaun McCance <shaunm src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-user-docs] g-h/user-delete: Rewrote for GNOME 3, final
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 02:18:11 +0000 (UTC)
commit daecf2d6191e69b853d01a19437dce3cb517ef29
Author: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
Date: Mon Apr 4 22:16:09 2011 -0400
g-h/user-delete: Rewrote for GNOME 3, final
gnome-help/C/user-delete.page | 97 +++++++++++------------------------------
1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gnome-help/C/user-delete.page b/gnome-help/C/user-delete.page
index 4b11fb8..b1c2afd 100644
--- a/gnome-help/C/user-delete.page
+++ b/gnome-help/C/user-delete.page
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#manage"/>
- <desc><gui>Users and groups</gui></desc>
- <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="0.1" date="2011-01-19" status="candidate"/>
+ <desc>Remove users that no longer use your computer.</desc>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-04-04" status="final"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
<email>tiffany antopolski com</email>
@@ -14,77 +14,32 @@
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
<email>gnome-doc-list gnome org</email>
</credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Shaun McCance</name>
+ <email>shaunm gnome org</email>
+ </credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</info>
- <title>Delete users or groups</title>
-
- <section id="delete-user">
- <title>Delete a user</title>
- <p>To delete a user account from your computer:</p>
-
- <steps>
- <item><p>
- When in the <gui>Activities</gui> overview, <gui>Type to search</gui> <input>users and groups</input>. This will open the <app>Users Administration Tool</app>.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>
- Select the user you wish to delete from the list on the left.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>
- Click <gui>Delete</gui>. You will be prompted for your password. Enter it and click <gui>Authenticate</gui>.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>
- You will be asked if you wish to remove the user's home folder. Select on of the following 3 options:
-
- </p>
- <terms>
- <item><title>Keep Files</title><p>
- The home directory of the user will not be deleted.
- </p></item>
- <item><title>Don't Remove Account</title><p>
- Cancels the removal request.
- </p></item>
- <item><title>Delete Files</title><p>
- Files owned by user can be completely removed if you don't need them anymore.
- </p>
- <note style="tip">
- <p>
- You may want to back them up before deleting the account, or keep them so that an administrator can save them later.
- </p>
- </note>
- </item>
-
- </terms>
- </item>
-
- </steps>
- </section>
-
- <section id="delete-group">
- <title>Delete a group</title>
- <p>To delete a group from your computer:</p>
-
- <steps>
- <item><p>
- When in the <gui>Activities</gui> overview, <gui>Type to search</gui> <input>users and groups</input>. This will open the <app>Users Administration Tool</app>.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>Click <gui>Manage Groups</gui>.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>Scroll through the list to select the group you wish to remove.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>Click <gui>Delete</gui>.
- </p>
-
- </item>
- <item><p>You will be prompted to authenticate using a password.
- </p><note style="warning">
- <p>Deleting a group may leave files with an unassigned group ID in the filesystem. In the event that this does happen, files belonging the removed group will not have a group name but a group ID number instead. Generally this will not cause you any problems.
- </p>
- </note></item>
- <item><p>
- After the warning, click <gui>Delete</gui>.
- </p></item>
- </steps>
- </section>
+ <title>Delete a user account</title>
+
+ <p>You can add multiple user accounts to your computer. See
+ <link xref="user-add"/> to learn how. If somebody is no longer using
+ your computer, you can delete that user's account.</p>
+
+<steps>
+ <item><p>Click your name in the top bar and select <gui>System Settings</gui>.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Click <gui>User Accounts</gui>.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Click <gui>Unlock</gui> in the bottom left corner and type your
+ password to make changes. You must be an administrative user to delete user
+ accounts.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Select the user you want to delete and click the <gui>-</gui> button.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Each user has their own home folder for their files and settings.
+ You can choose to keep or delete the user's home folder. Delete the files
+ if you're sure they won't be used anymore and you need to free up disk
+ space. These files are permanently deleted. They can't be recovered. You
+ may want to back up the files to an external drive or CD before deleting
+ them.</p></item>
+</steps>
</page>
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