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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 14:02:09 -0500
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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