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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsreader.sprintlink.net!mayumi.iphil.net!map 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <slrn4qd93g.e7m.map@marikit.iphil.net> References: <4nvobf$dvu@news.starnet.net> <4nvuc8$622@atlas.uniserve.com> Reply-To: map@iphil.net NNTP-Posting-Host: marikit.iphil.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.6.1) 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.