Deleting user from Ubuntu when the user is logged in

Question

I am working on Ubuntu 12.04 .Recently I downloaded Hadoop 2.0.3 and made a user named Hduser which I added and give privileged rights. Now I want to delete the user.

I used

sudo deluser hduser

But it's giving me the following error:

Warning: group hadoop' has no more members. userdel: user hduser is currently logged in /usr/sbin/deluser:/usr/sbin/userdel hduser'

returned error code 8. Exiting

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '13 at 07:17

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Try logging in as root or any other user before executing the above. And make sure HDFS is down.

answered Feb 21 '13 at 07:17

shazin

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I logged in as my user name and then gave the command but same error persists – Uselesssss Feb 21 '13 at 07:24
Are all the HDFS and hadoop related services down? – shazin Feb 21 '13 at 07:29
Issue HADOOP_HOME/bin/stop-mapred.sh and HADOOP_HOME/bin/stop-dfs.sh from the root user – shazin Feb 21 '13 at 09:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '13 at 04:14

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i had these errors too on Ubuntu 12.04 but I tried it on WEBMIN and successfully deleted the user.

answered Sep 11 '13 at 04:14

polpan

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Deleting user from Ubuntu when the user is logged in

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