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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 User Date: 25 Jul 1996 18:31:11 -0500 Organization: Dakota State University Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4t903v$1lc@ivory.dsu.edu> References: <31F7AA14.6A52@worldgate.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghelmer@ivory.dsu.edu Kevin Traub <traubk@worldgate.com> writes: >Whats the full procedure for deleting a user? Remove the user's crontab (if it exists) with "crontab -u user -r" Remove any "at" jobs the user has queued (use "atq" to list and "atrm" to remove the user's jobs) Remove the user's password entry with the help of "vipw" Remove the user's home directory Remove the user's incoming mail file from /var/mail Or, install my removeuser Perl script, which can be retrieved from ftp://ftp.dsu.edu/pub/FreeBSD/ghelmer/removeuser.tar.gz (if you're adventuresome and have backups, retrieve ftp://ftp.dsu.edu/pub/FreeBSD/ghelmer/removeuser-2-beta.tar.gz and let me know how it works for you; this new version removes the user's crontab, at jobs, and handles symlinks in the path to the user's home directory) >And is there a expiry date I can set to control the lenght of >time the a new users account is active? man chpass to see how to edit a user's password entry, where you can set the expiration date on the account. >Thanks >kevin >traubk@worldgate.com -- Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu