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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.clark.net!newsfeed2!news.wco.com!not-for-mail From: mr_smith@hotmail.com (Tom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stupidly remove a user Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:04:34 GMT Organization: West Coast Online's News Server - Not responsible for content Lines: 20 Message-ID: <335b92c4.76256911@news.wco.com> References: <01bc4d4d$659e3960$dcc42299@beta> NNTP-Posting-Host: t23.mlode.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39412 Did you just edit the master.passwd file directly or did you do it the proper way with vipw so that your password files get synced? Tom On 20 Apr 1997 05:37:41 GMT, "Ming Chu" <mingchu@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: >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 >