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From: Jed Clear <clear@netaxs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help deleting a user
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 20:22:03 -0400
Organization: Net Access - Philadelphia's Original ISP
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References: <31c5fba8.407993@news.intergate.bc.ca> <4qd73s$id5@primus.ac.net> <4qdlcj$hp1@baygull.rtd.com>
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Don Yuniskis wrote:
>
> In article <4qd73s$id5@primus.ac.net>, Mike Shultz <shultz@mail.gld.com> wrote:
> >jordon@intergate.bc.ca (Jordon Randall) wrote:
> >
> >>I know this is a dumb question, but how do you erase a user?
> >
> >man vipw
> >rm -r /usr/home/????
>
> Actually,
> find / -user joe -print
> will let you see if there's anything else of his (joe's) lying around
> on your system. And,
> find / -user joe -depth -exec rm -df {} \;
> will blindly erase everything of his. There are other variations
> on this theme...
Disable the user, do the find, then do the delete from /etc/passwd.
Also I think find has an option for "unkown" user.
-Jed