From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 03:39:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA15390 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:39:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA15381 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:39:26 -0800 (PST) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail13.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id GAA11489; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 06:30:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA10425; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:30:06 +0100 Message-Id: <9701231130.AA10425@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Tri Sakti Soebagyono Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Tri Sakti Soebagyono of Thu, 23 Jan 97 17:32:50 GMT. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Delete User Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 12:30:06 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk sakti@idola.net.id writes: > 1. What is a command to delete user ? I think there's a deluser script, but I can't remember for which version it's standard. > 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 ? > you *must* use vipw to change /etc/passwd, otherwise the password database file (which is what really gets used by login) is not updated. Did you use vipw ? --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org