Problems deleting a user with a lot of data

[albatroz]

I am trying to erase and account that has a lot of data (more than 1GB) however
eveytime I try to do so, DA gives me timeout error messages.

Is there a way I can do it from the command line?

 

[rocketcity]

If you are the server admin, just ssh into the server and go to the users home directory.

Once inside the public_html folder you can use the rm command to delete files eg..

#rm filename

If you want to delete folders with content still in them, you can use this command:

#rm -rf foldername

This will deletd the folder and all content with in it. Do not delete the user's account / home directory this way. Go back into DA and Delete the user after you have removed the content that you want to get rid of.

*Note that you will need to change the appropriate name for files, folders and user account to use those commands.