From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 19:26: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2561A37B404 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3G2PwD65562; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:26:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:25:58 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Taylor Dondich Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do users still show up when I remove them? In-Reply-To: <000701c1e4ec$6cb0deb0$6600a8c0@penguin> Message-ID: <20020415202413.F57269-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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