Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:11:55 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Tri Sakti Soebagyono <sakti@idola.net.id> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sakti@idola.net.id Subject: Re: Delete User Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970123031033.3723A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <32E7A0C2.3F88@idola.net.id>
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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 The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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