From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 7: 8: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E4837B93C for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA28129; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:05:52 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 00:05:51 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Fabio Miranda Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rmuser strange problem In-Reply-To: <20000802191809.27404.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Fabio Miranda wrote: > hi, as root, i want to rmuser a user called WebBot, > but this happens: > > nietzsche# cat /etc/passwd | grep WebBot > WebBot:*:1014:1001:Web-Bot:/home/WebBot:/sbin/nologin > nietzsche# rmuser WebBot > Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters > only. > nietzsche# Try "pw userdel WebBot -r" instead. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message