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Date:      Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:04:06 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        oscartheduck@gmail.com
Cc:        Lubomir Matousek <lubos.matousek@lubnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (no subject)
Message-ID:  <20080216120406.f4f80c07.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <1203178935.6099.1.camel@pclmills>
References:  <000a01c87073$9da5fc30$d8f1f490$@net> <1203178935.6099.1.camel@pclmills>

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James <oscartheduck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:11 +0100, Lubomir Matousek wrote:
> > Dear list, 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I have the following problem when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ----------
> > 
> > rmuser -v hana
> > 
> > Matching password entry:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > hana:*:1091:1092::0:0:/usr/home/hana:/usr/sbin/nologin
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes Remove user's home directory
> > (/usr/home/hanka)? yes Removing crontab for (hana):.
> > 
> > Removing at(1) jobs owned by (hana): 0 removed.
> > 
> > Removing IPC mechanismsipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or
> > directory
> > 
> > ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory
> > 
> > ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory .
> > 
> > Terminating all processes owned by (hana): -KILL signal sent to 0 processes.
> > 
> > Removing files owned by (hana) in /tmp: 0 removed.
> > 
> > Removing files owned by (hana) in /var/tmp: 0 removed.
> > 
> > Removing mail spool(s) for (hana): /var/mail/hana.
> > 
> > Removing user (hana) (including home directory) from the system: Done.
> > 
> > -----------
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The problem started, when I accidentaly deleted /usr/home directory and I
> > had to create a new one. I checked /etc/password file and the direcory
> > existed before using rmuser. Can anybody help please?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Lubos
> 
> 
> Looks like the problem is that somewhere within there it's expected that
> the home directory isn't /usr/home/hana, it's /usr/home/hanka
> 
> Have you checked /etc/master.passwd to make sure that there's no
> mis-entry in there? Or just try creating /usr/home/hanka and see if it
> works itself out.

Personally, I'm unsure where the "problem" is.  The only suspicious thing
I see is the inability to remove shared memory segments, which is a bit
strange but not wholly unexpected.  Did you build a kernel without shared
memory?

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



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