Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:56:40 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> Cc: Janusz Stal <eistal@cyf-kr.edu.pl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to delete user ? Message-ID: <199702260256.UAA26082@nexgen.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> of "Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:27:35 PST." <Pine.NEB.3.95.970225182727.3250B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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Snob Art Genre writes:
>
> 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?
If the user has a crontab, as root use "crontab -u user -r" to remove it. If there wasn't a crontab for the user then you'll be told.
As root type "atq" to see all the queued at jobs.
nexgen: {406} atq
Date Owner Queue Job#
20:55:00 02/25/97 dkelly c 1
nexgen: {407} atrm 1
nexgen: {408} atq
nexgen: {409}
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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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