From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 18:46:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA13658 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:46:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from marikit.iphil.net (map@marikit.iphil.net [203.176.0.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA13625 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from map@localhost) by marikit.iphil.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA13386 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:46:31 +0800 From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" Message-Id: <199602260246.KAA13386@marikit.iphil.net> Subject: safe way to remove a user To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:46:31 +0800 (GMT+0800) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, What's the safe way of removing a user automatically, without manual editing through vipw? How about deleting the entry from the password files and rebuilding the database - how can it be made safe by "locking" the password file? thanks, -- miguel a.l. paraz -- map@iphil.net -- http://www.iphil.net/user/map/ iphil communications, makati city, philippines