From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 20 15:57:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.usask.ca (mail.usask.ca [128.233.3.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C79715393 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:57:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nmm367@mail.usask.ca) Received: from mail.usask.ca ([128.233.3.206]) by mail.usask.ca (PMDF V5.2-32 #39029) with ESMTP id <0FGS00B0WD3V6O@mail.usask.ca> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:57:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:58:47 -0700 From: Naiden Subject: Re: how to delete a user? To: Scott Moffet Cc: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Message-id: <37BDEBB7.F23FF6A9@mail.usask.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <37BDCD61.CD32F857@earthlink.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Scott, instead of editing /etc/passwd, /etc/group and manually removing files/directories try man 8 rmuser. Regards, Naiden Scott Moffet wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message