From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 26 01:00:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA09840 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 01:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA09744 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA27597; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:59:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: jsantos@quetzal.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing a User In-Reply-To: <01IKID0WFBKY00RLN6@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.