From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 07:00:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA14040 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.dsu.edu (ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu [138.247.32.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA14032 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:00:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ghelmer@localhost) by alpha.dsu.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA30881; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:59:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:59:32 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: Wes Santee cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Interested in a 'deleteuser'? In-Reply-To: <199601090749.XAA05491@wsantee.oz.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Wes Santee wrote: > I know at periodic intervals the question of "Is there a deleteuser > counterpart to adduser available" comes up. > > If nothing ever surfaced, I've written a perl script called just > that that will pack a users mail/homedir/password entry/group > entries up into a tarball for archiving purposes and delete them > from the system. Would people still be interested in something like > this? Let me know and if there is enough interest I'll u/l it to > the FreeBSD ftp site. I'd post it here but its ~20K. I've written a removeuser utility (also in Perl) that I uploaded to Freefall some time ago and I've passed it along to several folks. No one ever seemed interested in committing it to the system sources, though. The apparent difference between my utility and yours is that yours tars up the users files before removal. Guy Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu