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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!olivea!venus.sun.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!usenet From: MICHAEL <michael@gnj.or.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to remove users? Date: 18 Nov 1995 00:43:41 GMT Organization: GNJ Spectrum Lines: 21 Message-ID: <48ja7t$85j@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: admin.gnj.or.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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. I tried doing a "man -k" on keywords such as "delete", "remove", "user", etc., but could not find anything appropriate. How do I remove a user? Thanks. MICHAEL __________________________________________ GNJ Spectrum Tokyo +81-3-5377-2401 (I%(J michael@gnj.or.jp Featuring Internet, OneNet and Pride International Networks IP Address 202.243.53.3, Port 3004