From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 14:08:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21001 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20911 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA01550; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:07:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:07:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: martin.poulin@altavista.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleting users In-Reply-To: <199806221955.PAA20857@web01.globecomm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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