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#! rnews 954 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!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.250.118.17!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: "Ming Chu" <mingchu@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Stupidly remove a user Date: 20 Apr 1997 05:37:41 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 11 Message-ID: <01bc4d4d$659e3960$dcc42299@beta> NNTP-Posting-Host: cust92.max30.san-francisco2.ca.ms.uu.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39392 This is very stupid: I've tried to remove a user by deleting an entry in /etc/master.passwd and in /etc/passwd and then rm -r /home/<username>; however, not only that the user can still log on, but I cannot add any new user now. And the error message is: "Corrupted /etc/master.passwd..." Help!!! Do I have to reinstall FreeBSD again in order to recover this? -Ming