Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:59:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: jsantos@quetzal.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing a User Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970626005313.27590A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <01IKID0WFBKY00RLN6@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>
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> Hi, > > How do I remove a user on FreeBSD?? > > I have remove a user from the files, master.passwd, passwd, group and > /var/log/adduser, but I can still log on to the server!! > > What can I do to resolve this problem?? > > Thanks, > > Jose Santos > Guatemala Hi Jose, I am forwarding your message to freebsd-questions in case there's something going on I'm not aware of. Did you use vipw to remove the user? I think that's what you need to do-- not edit the master.passwd file directly. (But you can edit the /etc/group file directly, as root.) You do not need to do anything to /var/log/adduser; that's a record of what's been done, not a list of current users, as far as I know. Annelise In addition to removing the user with vipw and deleting the user from /etc/group, you should also delete the user's files, with rm -r /usr/home/username where username is the name of the user.
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