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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to remove users? Date: 18 Nov 1995 20:35:53 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 14 Message-ID: <48lg39$obg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48ja7t$85j@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 MICHAEL <michael@gnj.or.jp> writes: >How do I remove a user? Remove the user's home directory with rm -rf ~user. Delete the passwd entry for this user with vipw(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)