From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 06:59:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA23095 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 06:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (root@synwork.com [199.3.234.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA23090 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 06:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (flaq@localhost) by synwork.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA13495; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:57:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:56:59 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mike K." To: Ozge Uncu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Delete User In-Reply-To: <9607281216.AA146501@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~