From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 14:48:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA23286 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:48:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA23278 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:48:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA05434; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:53:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:53:44 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: benedict@echonyc.com To: Dave Clements cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing Users In-Reply-To: <329613BF.5BD5@fcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Dave Clements wrote: > How do I remove a user from the database? I can't seem to find any info > anywhere on removing or editing users files. > > Dave > Fischer Computer Systems > 1. Set your EDITOR variable to an editor you like. 2. Use vipw to remove the user's line from /etc/master.passwd. Do not edit this file directly. 3. Edit /etc/group and remove their login group, if they have their own. 4. cd /home and rm -r their home directory. 5. cd /var/mail and delete their mail file. Ben