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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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