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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote:

> Snob Art Genre writes:
> >
> > There are scripts around that can do it, but you should know anyway:
> > 
> > 1) Use vipw to delete their entry in the passwd file.  
> > 2) Use your editor of choice to remove their group from /etc/group.
> > 3) rm -r /usr/home/whatever
> > 4) rm /var/mail/whatever
> 
> Don't forget to look for cron and at jobs.

What's the best way to do that?
 
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
> =====================================================================
> The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
> capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
> 
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."