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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Delete or modify user, how? Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:59:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4sl8v3$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31ED60CE.4F28@best.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Chris Millikin <chrism@best.com> wrote: > I'm puzzled. Adduser makes adding users simple, but how do I > permenently delete, or edit a user. When I say edit, I mean thing > like real name, etc. Removing all traces of a user is more complex, and it's a matter of local policy whether you even want this (or whether you, for example, want his login ID and UID being reserved for the forseeable future). There's now a utility under /usr/share/examples/ in the source tree demonstrating what you need to think of. Courtesy Guy Helmer, if my memory serves well. -- 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. ;-)