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Date:      Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:16:34 +0300
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        jsantos@quetzal.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removing a User
Message-ID:  <33B22562.7A18@barcode.co.il>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970626005313.27590A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >       How do I remove a user on FreeBSD??
> >
> >       I have remove a user from the files, master.passwd, passwd, group and
> > /var/log/adduser, but I can still log on to the server!!
> >
> >       What can I do to resolve this problem??
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jose Santos
> > Guatemala
> 
> Hi Jose, I am forwarding your message to freebsd-questions in case
> there's something going on I'm not aware of.
> 
> Did you use vipw to remove the user?  I think that's what you need to do--
> not edit the master.passwd file directly.  (But you can edit the
> /etc/group file directly, as root.)
> 
> You do not need to do anything to /var/log/adduser; that's a record of
> what's been done, not a list of current users, as far as I know.
> 
> Annelise
> 
> In addition to removing the user with vipw and deleting the user from
> /etc/group, you should also delete the user's files, with
> rm -r /usr/home/username
> where username is the name of the user.

and his mailbox: /var/mail/username, which exists if this user ever
received mail.

Nadav



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