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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Delete or modify user, how?
Date: 19 Jul 1996 23:13:45 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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ghelmer@ivory.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) wrote:

> >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.
> 
> Hmm - I can't seem to find it on either of the two 2.1.5 systems I just
> brought up...

Not in 2.1.5, only in -current.

> Anyway, a beta of a much revised version (installs easier, better error
> checking, handles symlinks to the user's home directory, and removes the
> user's crontab and any at jobs) is available at

Can you please get in contact with Wolfram Schneider
(wosch@freebsd.org) so he can update the example?

-- 
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. ;-)