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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0 Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 15:02:51 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <31B20F8B.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> 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: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Takafumi Kamiya <takakami@ix.netcom.com> Takafumi Kamiya wrote: > I deleted an entry from /etc/passwd , /etc/master.passwd , deleted home You should have only removed _one_ copy from the master password file using the `vipw' command (e.g. do NOT just edit the files!). That would have also rebuilt your DBM database for the passwd file and removed this user for good. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project