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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!news-out.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!shell3.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: dhawk@shell3.ba.best.com (David Hawkins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Deleted user still exists Date: 23 Apr 1997 07:34:44 -0700 Organization: Decline to State Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5jl6m4$81s@shell3.ba.best.com> References: <335DD775.7703@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell3.ba.best.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39632 In article <335DD775.7703@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, Norbert Grundmann <grundman@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: >i am using version 2.1.5 and i found a little problem when deleting >a user from my host. After deleting the line in /etc/passwd and >/etc/master.passwd the user still exists and the logging in was >accepted. Still after a reboot the user was 'living' but NO >corresponding line in the password file. After deleting the >backuped file(s) the user was deleted. Is this correct? Were you deleting the user with vipw in /etc/passwd? Was the user making telnet connections or ftp? To prevent ftp usage add the userid to /etc/ftpusers Did the user have a unique user number in /etc/passwd? Did the user have two lines in /etc/passwd? later, david -- David Hawkins dhawk@best.com http://www.river.org/~dhawk There seems no plan because it's all plan. There seems no center because it's all center. -- C. S. Lewis