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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!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!usenet From: Eli Lazich <elazich@mcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0 Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 13:59:19 -0500 Organization: Eli Lazich & Associates Lines: 13 Message-ID: <31B09307.77E@mcs.com> References: <4nvobf$dvu@news.starnet.net> <4nvuc8$622@atlas.uniserve.com> <4o1uvb$55j@baygull.rtd.com> <4ooa31$mmu@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elazich.pr.mcs.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; 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?How did you remove the entry? Was it w/ vi or some other editor? In that case I don't believe it will have the desired effect. What you want is to run 'vipw' and delete the user that way. Eli