From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 23 12:40:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64A537B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA65672; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:41:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:41:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Chris Byrnes Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing user with "-" in username In-Reply-To: <200010231940.e9NJeeQ57835@awww.jeah.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Chris Byrnes wrote: >awww# rmuser -y irc-argentina >Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only. > >Ugh. Foo. Feh. > >I remember a lengthy discussion about this awhile back, but >can't seem to find the archive. Consensus was that rmuser should remove any username that adduser allowed to be created. There was talk of fixing this. Then people jetted off to BSDCon. The fix is, learn how to use vipw, edit /etc/group, and rm -rf an old home directory. =) -- Brandon D. Valentine "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message