From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 19:07:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA12100 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 19:07:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA12085 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 19:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id aa21010; 10 Jun 96 2:06 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa20460; 10 Jun 96 2:32 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id BAA18728; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 01:18:31 GMT Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 01:18:31 GMT Message-Id: <199606100118.BAA18728@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: freebsd@newtrend.com CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199606092253.PAA09860@mailserver.newtrend.com> (freebsd@newtrend.com) Subject: Re: How to removing an active user from system permenently. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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