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Date:      Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:07:02 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        martin.poulin@altavista.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: deleting users
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980622150536.1418A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199806221955.PAA20857@web01.globecomm.net>

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Hi,

> 2.0.5-Release box, and there are several user accounts
> that need to be removed.  However, the "rmuser" command
> does not seem to work in this release.  If I have to
> remove the accounts manually, what would be the best
> way to go about it?  

Here's what I would do:

	1) as you note, remove their home directories
	2) remove their mail directories (/var/mail/user_name usually) 
	3) vipw - remove their entries
	4) vi /etc/group - remove them from any groups

I've probably forgotten something.  :-)

Brett
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