From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 20 14:50:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A660015B03 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from moffet@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (pool0877.cvx28-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.131.112]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21356 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:49:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37BDCD61.CD32F857@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:49:21 -0700 From: Scott Moffet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: how to delete a user? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I messed up the first time I ran adduser. I'm afraid if I start editing files I'll *really* mess things up. Can I safely edit the etc/pw.psS544 file? Can I just delete a line from there so as to re-create that user name by running adduser again? Or is there a better way? A googolplex of TIAs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message