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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stupidly remove a user Date: 21 Apr 1997 06:28:40 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 24 Sender: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5jf1eo$adf$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <01bc4d4d$659e3960$dcc42299@beta> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: un1i X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; 9000/819 HP-UX B.10.10] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39426 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 man vipw man pwd_mkdb Maybe pwd_mkdb solves your problem. In the worst case you'd probably have to use pwd_mkdb -p and add all users again (would this damage their present home directories? I don't know.) Bye, Philipp -- P. Mergenthaler, un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de | Wer halb gebildet, ist der Tel.: 0721/694532 | schoenste Narr. Klosterweg 28 / I609, 76131 Karlsruhe | (Weiss jemand, von wem das ist?) http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/ |