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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Tri Sakti Soebagyono <sakti@idola.net.id>
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Subject: Re: Delete User
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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Tri Sakti Soebagyono wrote:

> 1. What is a command to delete user ?

There is none, though there are several scripts bouncing around that do it.

> 2. I delete user with manual step :
> 	a. remove user property from /etc/passwd
> 	b. remove user's homdir
>    why never success ?, I mean the user name is removed from /etc/passwd but they still success to login ?

Because you should never edit /etc/passwd directly.  Use vipw instead. 
You can set root's EDITOR environment variable to change the editor that
vipw invokes.  Also, don't forget to remove the user's mail spool file
(/var/mail/username). 

> 
> -sakti-
> 



 Ben

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