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From: map@marikit.iphil.net (Miguel A.L. Paraz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 25 May 1996 06:15:41 GMT
Organization: IPhil Communications
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About deleting users:

In article <4nvuc8$622@atlas.uniserve.com>, Tim Baird wrote:
>Use vipw and pound "dd" on every user line that you want to zap.
>
>Hit ":wq" when done.

Isn't there a nice way to do this, programatically -
say, the 'deluser' command?  I guess it can be a perl script
just like 'adduser'.

-- 
miguel a.l. paraz <map@iphil.net>        iphil communications, makati city, 
tech problems, to <support@iphil.net>    philippines.