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From: takakami@ix.netcom.com (Takafumi Kamiya)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 1 Jun 1996 02:32:01 GMT
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I am having the same problem/question.

I deleted an entry from /etc/passwd , /etc/master.passwd , deleted home 
directory, and I can still login as that user!  And I rebooted, and I can still 
login as that user!!

Is there something else I need to do to remove the user completely?