Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:56:59 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mike K." <flaq@synwork.com> To: Ozge Uncu <ozge@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Delete User Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728085557.13487A-100000@synwork.com> In-Reply-To: <9607281216.AA146501@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr>
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On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Ozge Uncu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am fresh UNIX system administrator. We are running FreeBSD 2.1 on
> our server. We can add user by adduser command but we couldn not find any
> utility to delete a user. I tried to delete the directory of user and delete
> the data of the user from the 2 password files but this procedure corrupted
> the password files and we had to do installation from the beginning. Is
> there any easy way to delete a user. And is there any written material like
> "System Administration for FreeBSD". Because I have looked at the books that
> is advised in the FreeBSD Handbook but I observe that these books are noy
> specialized on FreeBSD.
>
Try using 'vipw' to edit your passwd file...it will rebuild the master
passwd file after editing.
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