From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 25 16:51:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spammie.svbug.com (mg128-006.ricochet.net [204.179.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7E437B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spammie.svbug.com (localhost.mozie.org [127.0.0.1]) by spammie.svbug.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06317; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:52:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jessem@spammie.svbug.com) Message-Id: <200010252352.QAA06317@spammie.svbug.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:52:15 -0700 (PDT) From: opentrax@email.com Reply-To: opentrax@email.com Subject: Re: Removing user with "-" in username To: bandix@looksharp.net Cc: chris@awww.jeah.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23 Oct, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Chris Byrnes wrote: > >>awww# rmuser -y irc-argentina >>Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only. >> >... > Consensus was that rmuser should remove any username that adduser > allowed to be created. There was talk of fixing this. Then people > jetted off to BSDCon. The fix is, learn how to use vipw, edit > /etc/group, and rm -rf an old home directory. =) > I should not your suggestion is NOT a fix. In many circles it is considered a workaround. =) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message