From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 9:48: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CF314BC5 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host-ie-trezzano.ie-online.it [194.133.148.44]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06025; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:47:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA08373; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:47:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991018184755.00b11940@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:47:55 +0200 To: "Martin Gignac" From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: How do I remove a user with a capital letter in the login ID? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <001101bf1987$7532b500$0ba6cdcd@cinar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12.40 18/10/99 -0400, you wrote: >I mistakenly created an account with a capital letter in the login name, and >now I can't seem to delete it because the 'rmuser' command keeps saying the >"login name must contain alphanumeric characters only.". I've tried putting >the name in quotes, but it still doesn't work. Just modify the account name by hand with "vipw", or modify /etc/master.passwd with any editor, then run "pwd_mkdb". --- Stefano Riva Systems & Network Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Voice +39-02283151, Fax +39-0228315900 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message