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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 04:44:59 +0200
From: Dominik Lupinski <yhpx@alpha.net.pl>
To: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com>
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Subject: Re: Why do users still show up when I remove them?
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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


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