userdel command

[Piyu_86]

Hi all
I am facing one problem with userdel command

my home directory permission is set to 755 and the owner is root group is also root

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 09:43 test1

now if i am running the command userdel -r test1
it is deleting the user test1 but not removing the home directory

root<server>:/home> userdel -r test1
userdel: /home/test1 not owned by test1, not removing

but because of some security reason i cannot change the owner of directory

can u please tell me is there any way to delete the home dir at teh time of userdel command

[barriehie]

What about:

deluser --remove-home user