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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help deleting a user
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 21:59:30 -0700
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Deborah Gronke Bennett wrote:
> 
>    I know this is a dumb question, but how do you erase a user?
> 
> Name your machine kaiwan009.kaiwan.com. Name the user aks. Stand back and wait
> for someone to do it for you.
> 

I am truly sorry to see a post like this. All regulars to this NG are fully aware 
that aks and his posts are fit only for the trash heap. But do you have to stoop to 
his level?

It was my sincere hope that the fuss and bother about aks had by now died down, and 
that this newsgroup could revert to its more professional "normal" mode. Please 
allow it to do so henceforth.

The original question has been answered a few times already, but since you did not 
include the original poster's name, I'll answer again, briefly. If you posted the 
question yourself in an effort to make a joke, then I find it to be in extremely 
poor taste.

To fully delete a user from your system, first use vipw (check the man page) to 
edit the password file. Then, delete that user's directory in /usr/home and 
mailfile(s) in /var/mail. You should also edit your /etc/group file to remove that 
entry. If this user has been permitted to create files in other directories, you 
should find and remove them as well.

May this be the last post having anything to do with the "aks" idiocy!

Ken