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  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#manage"/>

    <link type="seealso" xref="user-add"/>

    <link type="seealso" xref="user-admin-explain"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.8.0" date="2013-03-09" status="candidate"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-11-01" status="review"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.13.92" date="2014-09-22" status="candidate"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="final"/>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>

      <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="author">

      <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>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Michael Hill</name>

      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>

      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>

    </credit>

    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>

    <desc>Remove users that no longer use your computer.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Delete a user account</title>

  
You can <link xref="user-add">add multiple user accounts to your

  computer</link>. If somebody is no longer using your computer, you can delete

  that user’s account.

  
You need <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrator privileges</link>

  to delete user accounts.

  <steps>

    <item>

      
Åbn <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Aktivitetsoversigten</gui> og begynd at skrive <gui>Brugere</gui>.

    </item>

    <item>

      
Click <gui>Users</gui> to open the panel.

    </item>

    <item>

      
Press <gui style="button">Unlock</gui> in the top right corner and

      type in your password when prompted.

    </item>

    <item>

      
Select the user that you want to delete and press the

      <gui style="button">-</gui> button, below the list of accounts on the

      left, to delete that user account.

    </item>

    <item>

      
Each user has their own home folder for their files and settings. You

      can choose to keep or delete the user’s home folder. Click <gui>Delete

      Files</gui> if you are sure they will not be used anymore and you need to

      free up disk space. These files are permanently deleted. They cannot be

      recovered. You may want to back up the files to an external storage device

      before deleting them.

    </item>

  </steps>

</page>