Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:58:40 -0400 (EDT) From: bush doctor <dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net> To: martin.poulin@altavista.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleting users Message-ID: <199806222158.RAA10751@ikhala.tcimet.net> In-Reply-To: <199806221955.PAA20857@web01.globecomm.net> from "martin.poulin@altavista.net" at "Jun 22, 98 03:55:01 pm"
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Once upon a time <martin.poulin@altavista.net> said: > Hello, > > I have recently taken over administration of an old > 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? I am assuming that I will need to > remove them from /etc/master.passwd, as well as delete > their home directories. Is there anything else that > needs to be done? use vipw. see the man page if you're unfamiliar with its usage i'm not sure about 2.0.5-RELEASE but it should rebuild and update the master passwd file. if not i'm sure someone else will point out what needs to be done ... =;-) -- bush doctor > > Thanks in advance, > > Marty. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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