From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 15 16:03:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17964 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA17957 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id PAA27652; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:53:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Burton Sampley To: Snob Art Genre cc: Lord GoViL , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a dumb question? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If you're running 3.0-current, just use rmuser. On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Lord GoViL wrote: > > > I can't figure out what I thought should be a easy thing to do. Remove a > > user from the system. Is there a easy way to delete them or do I have to > > delete them step by step from wherever thier name appears in the system? > > help! :) > > It's not a dumb question. There is a perl script called removeuser that's > available on cdrom.com somewhere, I'm pretty sure. Or, just follow this > checklist: > > [ ] rm -r their home directory > [ ] use vipw to delete their line in the password file (or change > their password to *, or change their shell to /sbin/nologin) > [ ] delete their mail spool > [ ] kill any at or cron jobs belonging to them > [ ] if they have their own group, remove it from /etc/group > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Choose no life, no friends, no family. Choose a big computer, hard drives > > the size of washing machines. Choose old cars and electric coffee makers, > > no sleep, high caffeine, a rented shoebox. Choose black jeans and matching > > combat boots. Choose Sendmail and wondering why you're logged on on a > > Sunday morning. Choose your future. Choose sysadmining. > > I like your sig. > > > Ben > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." > > > --- Brought to you by a 100% Micro$oft free system. You too can disinfect your system at http://www.freebsd.org E-Mail: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com Alternate E-Mail: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley (permanently under construction)