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From: ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: removing a user
Date: 16 Apr 1997 13:31:46 GMT
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"GoViL" <govil@beavisandbutthead.com> writes:

>ok... this sounds dumd even to me.... but how do I REMOVE a user from the
>system? I can add then just fine, but say it was only temporary, & I want
>them gone! Thanks!

If you are using FreeBSD 2.2, check the man page for rmuser(8).  Otherwise,
if you have FreeBSD 2.0.x or 2.1.x, get rmuser from

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/rmuser-2.1.1.tar.gz

and install it following the instructions in the README file.

Guy
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