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From: Bryan Ogawa at Work <bogawa@netvoyage.net>
To: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map@iphil.net>
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Subject: Re: safe way to remove a user
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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> What's the safe way of removing a user automatically, without 
> manual editing through vipw?  How about deleting the entry from the 
> password files and rebuilding the database - how can it be made
> safe by "locking" the password file?

I believe that the lock works by flock()ing the /etc/master.passwd file.  
The adduser command has the code to do this somewhere or other (in perl).

bryan

> 
> thanks,
> -- 
> miguel a.l. paraz -- map@iphil.net -- http://www.iphil.net/user/map/
>                      iphil communications, makati city, philippines
> 

Bryan K. Ogawa
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