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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding/Deleting Users Date: 12 Nov 1995 14:48:43 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <484tvr$jpm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.951108090214.53988B-100000@dsu2.deltast.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Stacy Trippe <strippe@dsu2.deltast.edu> wrote: >Warning! Newbie question: >Can someone please tell me if there is a utility to delete users in FreeBSD? >The adduser works great, but I cannot find any documentation (man pages, >otherwise) that tell me how to delete a user. Is this documented? Is >this available in the 2.0.5r release? rm -rf ~usertodelete Run vipw(8), and delete the line starting with `usertodelete'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)