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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!mars.dsu.edu!ivory.dsu.edu!not-for-mail From: ghelmer@ivory.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Delete or modify user, how? Date: 19 Jul 1996 10:01:05 -0500 Organization: Dakota State University Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4so7vh$815@ivory.dsu.edu> References: <31ED60CE.4F28@best.com> <4sl8v3$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghelmer@ivory.dsu.edu j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >Chris Millikin <chrism@best.com> wrote: >> I'm puzzled. Adduser makes adding users simple, but how do I >> permenently delete, or edit a user. When I say edit, I mean thing >> like real name, etc. >Removing all traces of a user is more complex, and it's a matter of >local policy whether you even want this (or whether you, for example, >want his login ID and UID being reserved for the forseeable future). >There's now a utility under /usr/share/examples/ in the source tree >demonstrating what you need to think of. Courtesy Guy Helmer, if my >memory serves well. Hmm - I can't seem to find it on either of the two 2.1.5 systems I just brought up... Anyway, a beta of a much revised version (installs easier, better error checking, handles symlinks to the user's home directory, and removes the user's crontab and any at jobs) is available at ftp://ftp.dsu.edu/pub/FreeBSD/ghelmer/removeuser-2-beta.tar.gz Please use it with care (make good backups before using it!) and report any problems. It has been moderately tested on one of my systems and I have not heard of any problems, but of course YMMV. The home directory symlink handling code is the latest addition and I think I have tested every possible case (including dangling symlinks), but I would appreciate feedback. Guy Helmer ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu (but not for much longer!) -- Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu