From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 13 07:02:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20581 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 07:02:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oslo17.or.uninett.no (hanspbie@oslo17.or.uninett.no [158.36.90.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20561 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 07:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zerium@webindex.no) Received: from localhost (hanspbie@localhost) by oslo17.or.uninett.no (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA00336; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:02:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from zerium@webindex.no) X-Authentication-Warning: oslo17.or.uninett.no: hanspbie owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 16:02:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Hans Petter Bieker X-Sender: hanspbie@oslo17.or.uninett.no To: D Boss cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User administration In-Reply-To: <19980613133217.2270.rocketmail@send1b.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 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- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message