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From: lbw@cougar.com (Len Wilson)
Subject: Re: HELP! how do you remove a user from BSD ?????
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Tony (tony@gcr1.com) wrote:

> I've done it once before by deleting files, and it worked BUT there must be
> a command
> or a switch on a command to remove users from the system ????

There's a really handy perl script called 'removeuser' that removes all
traces of a user. It's not included with FreeBSD but you can get it at
one of the CPAN sites.


Len Wilson

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