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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
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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
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