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#! rnews 1374 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!165.113.1.76!nntp3.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: removing a user Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:07:26 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <33564ABE.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <01bc49d8$83b56cc0$e60862ce@zero.super-highway.net> <5j1egh$7fk@lace.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39262 Frank Crary wrote: > I'd try brute force and ignorance. Edit the /etc/passwd file and That's too much of both. :-) You don't want to edit /etc/passwd ever - it's a shadow file and will simply be overwritten the next time you edit the _real_ password file (/etc/master.passwd). You want to use the vipw command to edit your password file since it does proper locking and rebuilds the databases afterwards (which simply editing /etc/master.passwd won't do). -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.