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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!plains.nodak.edu!not-for-mail From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 24 May 1996 10:00:14 -0500 Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4o4itu$gce@plains.nodak.edu> References: <4nvobf$dvu@news.starnet.net> <31A3A903.3404@netaxs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <31A3A903.3404@netaxs.com>, Jed Clear <clear@netaxs.com> wrote: >David Schnardthorst wrote: >> What is the easiest way to remove users under FreeBSD 2.0. Can I just take >> them out of the passwd file, or is there another way? >You can change the password field to * or delete the line in >/etc/passwd. Putting in * locks them out and has a few advantages. FreeBSD uses shadow passwords, you wanted to say /etc/master.passwd, not /etc/passwd. --mark.