From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 15:53:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA03258 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailserver.newtrend.com (mailserver.newtrend.com [206.216.135.152]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03251 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion (orion.newtrend.com [206.216.135.153]) by mailserver.newtrend.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA09860 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:53:59 -0700 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:53:59 -0700 Message-Id: <199606092253.PAA09860@mailserver.newtrend.com> X-Sender: freebsd@mailserver.newtrend.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: freebsd@newtrend.com (FreeBSD) Subject: How to removing an active user from system permenently. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Recently, I create a user login account by mistake and want to remove the account and unable to do so. By removing the user name from passwd file does not help either because everytime a new user is added, the removed user is put back into the passwd file. Can somebody tell me the proper way to delete a user? Thank you.