From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 11:26:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1D316A4CE for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F410443D2F for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.84.3]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040513182640.UILZ18566.out011.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 13 May 2004 13:26:40 -0500 Message-ID: <40A3BE56.6080207@mac.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:28:38 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OLAF STEIN References: <4d01124d0e90.4d0e904d0112@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4d01124d0e90.4d0e904d0112@osu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Thu, 13 May 2004 13:26:40 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remove users from system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:26:41 -0000 OLAF STEIN wrote: > i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entries in /etc/passwd > and /etc/group (they had their own group and where in no other groups) > > the users are still able to login after i deleted them Run pwd_mkdb. It would be a good idea to use vipw when editting password files directly, BTW.... -- -Chuck