From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 1 3:28:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.wananchi.com (unknown [212.49.74.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811C537B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by everest.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.31 #5) id 15RtEP-000CCl-00; Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:28:01 +0300 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:28:01 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: parv Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Help with "rmuser" Message-ID: <20010801132801.U16379@everest.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , parv , FBSD-Q References: <20010801125415.S16379@everest.wananchi.com> <20010801062603.A52529@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/aVve/J9H4Wl5yVO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010801062603.A52529@moo.holy.cow> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 1:25PM up 21:52, 5 users, load averages: 0.41, 0.26, 0.24 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --/aVve/J9H4Wl5yVO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * parv [20010801 13:25]: writing on the subject 'Re= : Help with "rmuser"' parv> on Aug 01 06:21, i got this from Odhiambo... parv> > After a cvsupping and doing complete update yesterday, I now have a= very parv> > funny problem - I can't remove users! parv> >=20 parv> > everest# rmuser test2 parv> > Matching password entry: parv> > test2:RUgtD0aLuma/E:5259:1004::0:0:Test Two:/home/test2:/nonexistent parv> >=20 parv> > Is this the entry you wish to remove? y parv> >=20 parv> > Remove user's home directory (/home/test2)? y parv> >=20 parv> > Removing user's at jobs:Updating password file, parv> > /usr/sbin/rmuser: Error: Couldn't open file : parv> > No such file or directory parv> ... parv>=20 parv> did the user directory of test2 exist before you ran rmuser? I actually created the user 'test2' after realizing that I was having a problem with rmuser. everest# ls -al /home/test2/ total 75 drwxr-xr-x 2 test2 users 512 Aug 1 12:45 . drwxr-xr-x 4282 root wheel 75264 Aug 1 12:54 .. everest# cd /home/test2/ everest# pwd /home/test2 The user is still intact! Thanks -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.=20 -Henry Spencer=20 --/aVve/J9H4Wl5yVO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Z9mxn7LIsuxjem8RAs91AKC2n6+4aeADd9db6triSmNaCdA4XACgtMJa MG+ZejQEoasWi4YhfxIOkFc= =8mge -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/aVve/J9H4Wl5yVO-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message