Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:07:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: martin.poulin@altavista.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleting users Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980622150536.1418A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806221955.PAA20857@web01.globecomm.net>
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Hi, > 2.0.5-Release box, and there are several user accounts > that need to be removed. However, the "rmuser" command > does not seem to work in this release. If I have to > remove the accounts manually, what would be the best > way to go about it? Here's what I would do: 1) as you note, remove their home directories 2) remove their mail directories (/var/mail/user_name usually) 3) vipw - remove their entries 4) vi /etc/group - remove them from any groups I've probably forgotten something. :-) Brett ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ If you meet a beautiful woman wearing skintight, clingy lycra, and one of the first five words out of your mouth is "Campagnolo" . . . . . you might be a cyclist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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