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I have a Ubuntu root filesystem (from another system) partition mounted inside my current system (also Ubuntu).

I would like to remove a user from that system. Is it possible to do that, for example, using chroot into that mount point and then running the userdel command?

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Sure, you can use chroot.

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
chroot /mnt
deluser <username>
exit
umount /mnt

Assuming /dev/sdb1 is the partition where your secondary system was installed: mount it, and chroot its root directory.

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Is it possible to do that, for example, using chroot into that mount point and then running the userdel command?

SYN answered how to do it with userdel while I was typing.

Without using userdel would take just a few steps:

  • Find the UID of the user with id -u {username} and check if there are any temp files belonging to that user with

    find /var /tmp -uid n

  • Delete the user from ... 

    /etc/shadow
/etc/passwd

  • Not really needed but you could also remove ...

    /etc/group
/etc/login.defs

man userdel shows these files as related to userdel.

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