Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 09:55:37 +0300 From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: wsantee@wsantee.oz.net (Wes Santee), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automating removal of users password Message-ID: <v0151011dac4b6792907a@[130.234.41.39]>
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At 11:03 7/8/95, Michael Smith wrote:
>Wes Santee stands accused of saying:
>> umask 077
>> chdir /etc
>> /usr/bin/grep -v ${username} master.passwd > master.passwd.XXXXXX
>> /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd.XXXXXX
>> /bin/rm -f master.passwd.XXXXXX
>
>That should be grep -v ^${username} ... (Match only at the beginning of
>a line)
>
I would use
grep -v "^${username}:" ...
So user msmithma is not deleted when you delete msmith
Seppo
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