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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!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 27 May 1996 10:17:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4obvf8$6u0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nvobf$dvu@news.starnet.net> <4nvuc8$622@atlas.uniserve.com> <slrn4qd93g.e7m.map@marikit.iphil.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E map@marikit.iphil.net (Miguel A.L. Paraz) wrote: > About deleting users: > 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'. It could, but as you can figure from the other articles in this thread, removing all traces of a user isn't that easy as adding a new one (and as Don Yuniskis mentioned, it's perhaps a bad idea at all to recycle their login ID and UID). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)