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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!gryphon.phoenix.net!phoenix.phoenix.net!pflores From: pflores@phoenix.net (Paul Flores) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to remove users? Date: 19 Nov 1995 02:59:01 GMT Organization: Phoenix Data Systems Lines: 27 Message-ID: <48m6hl$kjn@gryphon.phoenix.net> References: <48ja7t$85j@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phoenix.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] MICHAEL (michael@gnj.or.jp) wrote: : Can somebody please tell me how to remove users from my FreeBSD system? : I have tried deleting them from /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd : files, deleting them from the group file, and deleting their home : directories, but when I do "finger" they still seem to be there. Also, : if I try to add a user with the same name as a deleted person the system : reports that the user already exists. If you did the edit of the passwd and master.passwd manually (ie not vipw) then you need to have freebsd remake it's passwd/user database. The command escapes me at the moment, but I believe if you type vipw, and make a change, the mkpw_db proggy will preform it's magic and the user will canish... BTW, you aren't running NIS or anything are you? :> Hope this helps! Paul -- "I've Always been easy, just never cheap!" ------ ME!