From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 16:52:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA25031 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (root@synwork.com [199.3.234.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA25024 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:52:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (flaq@localhost) by synwork.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA09795; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 18:52:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 18:52:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mike K." To: Carlton Brown cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newsgroups and how to delete users In-Reply-To: <199607202112.OAA06551@catalyst.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Use vipw as root... Mike On Thu, 10 Jul 1980, Carlton Brown wrote: > 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) > > > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD ~*-,._..,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~