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	Hi all,
	Did you /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb?

	You can also use /usr/sbin/rmuser next time -- but you need perl
for it. Which most people have anyway. The nice thing about rmuser that is
does everything for you... incuding old left at jobs, mail spools, etc.

-- yan

On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Annelise Anderson wrote:

> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
>