From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 08:40:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA27501 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:40:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA27495 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:40:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) id KAA00432; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:40:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199612031640.KAA00432@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: How do I cleanup and get rid of old users To: mad@adc.com (Michael A. Dorin) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:40:24 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <32A4483A.1A9E@adc.com> from "Michael A. Dorin" at "Dec 3, 96 09:33:14 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Michael A. Dorin said: > How do I cleanup and get rid of old users? So far I have just > changed their passwords to be something unknown, but I would like to > clean some of the crap up from my disk. > > Would I remove them from: > > group > passwd > master.passwd Remove them from group, but use vipw. passwd/master.passwd is used for human viewable stuff, the real info is in pwd.db. > > Is there any other files that I have to removed them from? Application dependent, such as ftp.allow, or tacacs, etc. > Is there a tool that does this for me? There is a alpha/beta script that helps, I'm not sure what it is however, check the archives of this mailing list. This comes up at least monthly. Paul. -- It's hard to re-evaluate your priorities when the only ones you have are Beer and Baseball!