Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:41:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Chris Byrnes <chris@awww.jeah.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing user with "-" in username Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231540020.65525-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <200010231940.e9NJeeQ57835@awww.jeah.net>
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Chris Byrnes wrote: >awww# rmuser -y irc-argentina >Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only. > >Ugh. Foo. Feh. > >I remember a lengthy discussion about this awhile back, but >can't seem to find the archive. Consensus was that rmuser should remove any username that adduser allowed to be created. There was talk of fixing this. Then people jetted off to BSDCon. The fix is, learn how to use vipw, edit /etc/group, and rm -rf an old home directory. =) -- Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net> "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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