Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:29:07 +0100 (MET) From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions) Subject: Re: Delete User Message-ID: <199701241029.LAA00633@CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <199701231711.KAA00974@seagull.rtd.com> from Don Yuniskis at "Jan 23, 97 10:11:00 am"
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> I think the vipw method is preferable since it does all the file locking > for you. > > I recommend *not* removing the entry from /etc/passwd but, rather, filling > the password field with ``*'' to effectively prohibit the user from using > the account. This allows /etc/passwd to serve as an informal record of > current AND PREVIOUS login id's. On a small system, it's great. On And what about her/his ~/.rhosts file? So delete this file, or deny the use of it with rlogind/rshd's -l option in /etc/inetd.conf. Or deny it at all. Gabor
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