From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 13: 7:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from css-1.cs.iastate.edu (css-1.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C0437BD66 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu) Received: from popeye.cs.iastate.edu (ghelmer@popeye.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.4]) by css-1.cs.iastate.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA25749; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:06:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by popeye.cs.iastate.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA13285; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:06:48 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: popeye.cs.iastate.edu: ghelmer owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:06:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer To: Fabio Miranda Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rmuser strange problem In-Reply-To: <20000802191809.27404.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message