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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!ruhr.de!acme1.ruhr.de!not-for-mail From: chris@acme1.ruhr.de (Christoph Haas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I remove users? Date: 4 Sep 1996 18:55:35 +0200 Organization: Private BSD site, Witten Lines: 19 Message-ID: <50kca7$17p@acme1.ruhr.de> References: <cajas001.841410433@maroon.tc.umn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jerry.local.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Judith I Cajas-Dorin (cajas001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote: : How do I remove old FreeBSD users? So far I am only changing : the password. What files and directories have to be removed? First of all you should delete the user's entry in the password file (use vipw). Then you should edit the /etc/group and delete every occurence of the users login name. After that, remove the user's home directory. You should have a look at ps -ef for tasks belonging to the user to be deleted. And finally look for files in other directories that are owned by the user. But think twice before deleteing them, they may be needed by other users that belong to one of the groups the user was in. That's all, I think. -- Christoph Haas chris@acme1.ruhr.de "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish." - man tunefs(8)