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I guess charging for this is not OK.<br />

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Hi people,<br />
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I hope this is not a foolish question. I have a Unix (shell) account from college to read my e-mail. I'm leaving the college and would like my account deleted. The system administrator is too busy and doesn't respond to my e-mails for the account to be deleted. Now my question is, since I have rights (protection) to my own account and directory, can I delete the account myself, without having root access?<br />
Again, I don't know if this is a challenging question or a foolish question, but any help would be greatly appreciated.<br />
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Thanx.
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Hi people,

I hope this is not a foolish question. I have a Unix (shell) account from college to read my e-mail. I'm leaving the college and would like my account deleted. The system administrator is too busy and doesn't respond to my e-mails for the account to be deleted. Now my question is, since I have rights (protection) to my own account and directory, can I delete the account myself, without having root access?
Again, I don't know if this is a challenging question or a foolish question, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx.

How can I delete your own Unix account ?

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.