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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:36:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Haas <haas@willi.lion.de>
To:        Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
Cc:        Lord GoViL <govil@super-highway.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is this a dumb question?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.970416103530.20579A-100000@willi>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970415135730.2513A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>

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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:

> [ ]	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

And don't forget to kill all processes owned by the user to be removed.
They might run some really nasty programs in the background ;-)
	
	Christoph





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