Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 01:18:31 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd@newtrend.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to removing an active user from system permenently. Message-ID: <199606100118.BAA18728@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606092253.PAA09860@mailserver.newtrend.com> (freebsd@newtrend.com)
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> Recently, I create a user login account by mistake and want to remove > the account and unable to do so. By removing the user name from passwd > file does not help either because everytime a new user is added, the > removed user is put back into the passwd file. Can somebody tell me the > proper way to delete a user? The passwd file is actually generated from a database, which is why editing the passwd file doesn't work (as you've seen, it just gets re-generated from the dataase). Use 'vipw' to edit the file - this will automatically update the database afterwards. You'll probably need to do other things like delete their home directory as well. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org
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