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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!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help deleting a user Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 07:35:40 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <31C6BEBC.6383@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31c5fba8.407993@news.intergate.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Jordon Randall wrote: > > I know this is a dumb question, but how do you erase a user? This thread must have just gotten clipped from the NG. If you want to totally remove this user from your system, use vipw to edit the password file & remove that name. Then, delete his/her home directory and mail directory. If any other write access is permitted on your system, you may also want to hunt down possible other files owned by that user. You should also edit the /etc/group file. If you don't want to recycle that user ID and do want to lock him out forever, use chpass to stuff a nonsense password into his entry, to deny him login access. Since the new password is supposed to be encrypted, there is no way to figure it out. Suggestion to FreeBSD team: since this question has come up again so soon, perhaps it belongs in the FAQ. I hope this helps! Ken