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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: takakami@worldnet.att.net (Takafumi Kamiya) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 2 Jun 1996 03:47:18 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4or2s6$eq8@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> References: <4nvobf$dvu@news.starnet.net> <4nvuc8$622@atlas.uniserve.com> <4o1uvb$55j@baygull.rtd.com> <4ooa31$mmu@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <31B093B1.F14@mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 244.orlando-2.fl.dial-access.att.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 >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 Yes, I used vi and deleted entry from passwd and master.passwd. I did see passwd.db file, but I didn't know what to do with it. I used vipw and now the user is deleted clean. Thank you for your tip!! But then what are passwd and passwd.master there for if you have a separate database? For compatibility?