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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding/Deleting Users
Date: 12 Nov 1995 14:48:43 +0100
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Stacy Trippe  <strippe@dsu2.deltast.edu> wrote:
>Warning!  Newbie question:
>Can someone please tell me if there is a utility to delete users in FreeBSD?
>The adduser works great, but I cannot find any documentation (man pages, 
>otherwise) that tell me how to delete a user.  Is this documented?  Is 
>this available in the 2.0.5r release?

rm -rf ~usertodelete

Run vipw(8), and delete the line starting with `usertodelete'.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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