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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I remove users? Date: 6 Sep 1996 20:51:32 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 27 Message-ID: <50q2sk$9n9@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <cajas001.841410433@maroon.tc.umn.edu> <50kca7$17p@acme1.ruhr.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Christoph Haas (chris@acme1.ruhr.de) wrote: : Judith I Cajas-Dorin (cajas001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote: : : How do I remove old FreeBSD users? So far I am only changing : : the password. What files and directories have to be removed? : First of all you should delete the user's entry in the password file (use : vipw). Then you should edit the /etc/group and delete every occurence of : the users login name. After that, remove the user's home directory. You : should have a look at ps -ef for tasks belonging to the user to be : deleted. And finally look for files in other directories that are owned : by the user. But think twice before deleteing them, they may be needed by : other users that belong to one of the groups the user was in. : That's all, I think. It seems to me, that you might need to look for any cron jobs. Though, I never tried to experiment if the cron job will work after the user is removed. I'd also suggest removing files first, and just then the passwd file entry. DOing this way you can run "find" easier, to find all user's files. Don't forget about /var/mail/USER IgoR aka StR