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From: gorhas@electra.saaf.se (G|ran Hasse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: removeuser
Date: 24 May 1997 07:01:57 +0200
Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening
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In article <5lvu76$3sl$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>,
Zenin  <good.luck@getting.spam.to.zenin.at.best.com> wrote:
>Admiral Coeyman <admiral.coeyman@p-corner.com> wrote:
>> FreeBSD,
>>     WE're running FreeBSD 2.1.5 here and could use a utility to remove users. 
>> I read about a perl script called removeuser, but couldn't find it on the CPAN
>> archive sites I checked.  Does anybody know where I can get it?
>>     -ADMIRAL COEYMAN
>> http://www.corner.net/admiral/
>
>	man 8 rmuser

But you must also do a 

find / -user user -exec rm -f {} \;

I would recommend a perl script to make backup of the users files and
then remove him/her from /etc/passwd and then remove the files.



>
>-Zenin
> zenin @ best . com


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