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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 1996 11:24:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jack <jack@xtalwind.net>
To:        Ozge Uncu <ozge@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Delete User
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728112211.191D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <9607281216.AA146501@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr>

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On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Ozge Uncu wrote:

>         I am fresh UNIX system administrator. We are running FreeBSD 2.1 on
> our server. We can add user by adduser command but we couldn not find any
> utility to delete a user. 

Take a look in ftp://alpha.dsu.edu/pub/FreeBSD/ghelmer there are two
versions of a removeuser perl script there.

> I tried to delete the directory of user and delete
> the data of the user from the 2 password files but this procedure corrupted
> the password files and we had to do installation from the beginning. 

Use vipw to modify your password files.


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