From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 25 06:48:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA00121 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 06:48:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA00113 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 06:48:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA24468; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:47:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:47:20 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: Robert Withrow cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser project? In-Reply-To: <199603241346.IAA25854@spooky.rwwa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Robert Withrow wrote: > > Whatever happened to this? A couple of folks were working on it > > together, using the "spec" that I posted a few months back, and > > then nothing happened. > > And, even though there was a lot of disagreement about this, I > still need some sort of deluser capability. In my case it would > be better to do something imperfectly that to do nothing because you > can't figure out what the perfect thing is to do. > > So, can I petition the lords of adduser to add some kind of deluser > capability? Please? I've written a removeuser utility for FreeBSD that a number of people are using, and it's been used heavily at my site. I've mentioned it on this list a couple of times. It's now available at ftp://ftp.dsu.edu/pub/FreeBSD/ghelmer/removeuser.tar.gz > Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu