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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:06:47 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu>
To:        Fabio Miranda <fmirand@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rmuser strange problem 
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPX.4.05.10008021502290.5902-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000802191809.27404.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com>

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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Fabio Miranda wrote:

> hi, as root, i want to rmuser a user called WebBot,
> but this happens:
> 
> nietzsche# cat /etc/passwd | grep WebBot
> WebBot:*:1014:1001:Web-Bot:/home/WebBot:/sbin/nologin
> nietzsche# rmuser WebBot
> Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters
> only.
> nietzsche# 

rmuser used to not accept upper-case letters in user names.  Obtain the
latest rmuser.perl from

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.perl

and install it thus:

install -c -o root -g wheel -m 555 rmuser.perl /usr/sbin/rmuser

Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science 
Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science   ---   ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer



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