Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:25:58 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do users still show up when I remove them? Message-ID: <20020415202413.F57269-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <000701c1e4ec$6cb0deb0$6600a8c0@penguin>
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Taylor Dondich wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > I attempt to remove the entries for a user from the master.passwd > and the passwd files directly. Then, when I do a finger on the user > that I removed (after rebooting no less), the user still shows in man 8 pwd_mkdb; You need to re-make the password database from the master (text) file after directly editing /etc/master.passwd. Alternately, if you use vipw(8), this will be done automatically for you. A reboot will *not* cause the system to rebuild the database. That would be silly. :-) - Ryan > > Any thoughts? > > Taylor Dondich > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901 1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-3630 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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