Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:29:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Skynet1@cris.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961029212731.369B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9610300316.AA22917@voyager.cris.com>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 Skynet1@cris.com wrote: > Hello. I made a test user john doe and I can't seem to be able to remove it. I searched all my files...i removed the entry from p/etc/passwd, master.passwd > group, and i removed the home dir...but i can stil logon as johndoe with the > password and use the directory / as a login diroot. What do I do to > remove this user???? Use vipw to edit the password file and delete johndoe's entry with the 'dd' command, then rm -rf /usr/home/johndoe. You can't edit passwd directly since it's a generated file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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