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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:02:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Hans Petter Bieker <zerium@webindex.no>
To:        D Boss <dnewsdef@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: User administration
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980613160040.315A-100000@oslo17.or.uninett.no>
In-Reply-To: <19980613133217.2270.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>

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On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, D Boss wrote:

> 1. I've made a user login all in uppercase, and it can't be removed
> using rmuser, complaining that I should have alphacharacters. How to
> remove this user manually ?

* use vipw to remove the password line
* rm -rf the homedir
* rm the mail file
* other files (in /tmp, crontab, attabs etc)

> 2. How to make a home directory for a user, because the automatic
> adduser failed to create one. Could you tell me the sequence of login
> so I can modify things manually (connected to Q1) ?

# mkdir ~username
# chown username.username ~username

-bieker-


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