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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?
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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