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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2001 18:15:55 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        lucas@slb.to
Subject:   Re: Help with "rmuser"
Message-ID:  <20010801181555.H48472@everest.wananchi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010801083203.A61037@comp04.prc.uic.edu>
References:  <20010801125415.S16379@everest.wananchi.com> <20010801075314.A58468@comp04.prc.uic.edu> <20010801083203.A61037@comp04.prc.uic.edu>

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* Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> [20010801 16:33]: writing on the subject 'Re=
: Help with "rmuser"'
Lucas> Thus spake Odhiambo:
Lucas>=20
Lucas> > > After a cvsupping and doing complete update yesterday, I now have
Lucas> > > a very funny problem - I can't remove users!
Lucas> > >=20
Lucas> > > everest# rmuser test2
Lucas> > > Matching password entry:
Lucas> > > test2:RUgtD0aLuma/E:5259:1004::0:0:Test Two:/home/test2:/nonexis=
tent
Lucas> > >=20
Lucas> > > Is this the entry you wish to remove? y
Lucas> > >=20
Lucas> > > Remove user's home directory (/home/test2)? y
Lucas> > >=20
Lucas> > > Removing user's at jobs:Updating password file,
Lucas> > > /usr/sbin/rmuser: Error: Couldn't open file :
Lucas> > >  No such file or directory
Lucas> > >=20
Lucas> > > Is there something wierd I might have done?
Lucas>=20
Lucas> Replied I:
Lucas>=20
Lucas> > I don't think so.  It looks like some recent changes broke rmuser.
Lucas> > I'm looking into it.
Lucas>=20
Lucas> It looks like rmuser is indeed broken.  I submitted a PR with the
Lucas> following patch, which works for me.  As usual, there is no guarantee
Lucas> that this won't totally destroy your password database; use with
Lucas> *extreme* caution.
Lucas>=20
Lucas>   http://www.slb.to/~lucas/patches/rmuser-200108011320.diff
Lucas>=20
Lucas> Apply the patch in /usr/src/usr.sbin/adduser.


Hi Lucas,

Thank you for the patch. I've applied it and it's worked perfectly here.


-Wash

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