From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 14:10:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16848 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 14:10:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catalyst.net (tiger.catalyst.net [207.135.215.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16833 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 14:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carlton-d197.catalyst.net (carlton-d196.catalyst.net [207.135.215.196]) by catalyst.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA06551 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 14:12:25 -0700 Message-Id: <199607202112.OAA06551@catalyst.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 80 16:03:02 -0700 From: Carlton Brown Organization: Catalyst Data Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Newsgroups and how to delete users Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need to know where to fing the FreeBSD support newsgroups, so that I can find anxaers to simple questions, not covered in the Handbook, without pestering you guys, and I am presently trying to find the counterpart to the 'adduser' command, that deletes them. Editing the /etc/password file doesn't seem to be working; all my changes, even when made as 'root' don't seem to stick. I log out, log back in, and the old users are alway back in there, again. Very frustrating... Carlton Brown (carlton@catalyst.net)