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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0 Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 09:31:38 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31B0706A.6172@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4nvobf$dvu@news.starnet.net> <4nvuc8$622@atlas.uniserve.com> <4o1uvb$55j@baygull.rtd.com> <4ooa31$mmu@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Takafumi Kamiya wrote: > > I am having the same problem/question. > > I deleted an entry from /etc/passwd , /etc/master.passwd , deleted home > directory, and I can still login as that user! And I rebooted, and I can still > login as that user!! > > Is there something else I need to do to remove the user completely? The relevant file here is /etc/pwd.db, which is the actual hashed db file that gets checked for valid users. You can't edit this file directly; you *must* use vipw for this. vipw edits the master.passwd file first, then calls pwd_mkdb(8). Check the man page on vipw. Ken