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From: Deke Swallen <deke@efn.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: removing a user
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:09:21 -0700
Organization: Oregon Public Networking
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Type the following at the prompt:
pw userdel <the userID>
I had that problem for a while.....
If you wanna find a command that does something specific
type man -k <subject> 
that works great...
:)



-Deke

On 15 Apr 1997, GoViL wrote:

> ok... this sounds dumd even to me.... but how do I REMOVE a user from the
> system? I can add then just fine, but say it was only temporary, & I want
> them gone! Thanks!
> 
> 
>