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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
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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