Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 04:44:59 +0200 From: Dominik Lupinski <yhpx@alpha.net.pl> To: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why do users still show up when I remove them? Message-ID: <20020416044459.A70939@ember.rtk-local> In-Reply-To: <000701c1e4ec$6cb0deb0$6600a8c0@penguin>; from thexder@lvcm.com on Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:14:22PM -0700 References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0204151900350.8184-100000@shell.core.com> <001c01c1e4eb$682cab90$32040101@socrates> <000701c1e4ec$6cb0deb0$6600a8c0@penguin>
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:14:22PM -0700, Taylor Dondich wrote: > 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 the system. When doing a > rmuser, it says it didn't find the entry second time around. > > Any thoughts? Yep. Nice explanation to your question you can find using <man 8 pwd_mkdb>. Simply you need to rebuild your passwd database. And BTW never edit your passwd files in usual way. There is a vipw tool to do so. Dominik Lupinski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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