Completely remove user from system
Igor V. Ruzanov
igorr at canmos.ru
Thu Dec 23 12:56:02 UTC 2010
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, itpr0 wrote:
|Hi list,
|
|We are using postfix with system user authentication, I have to completely
|remove an user for the system so he couldn't auth to send e-mails.
|
|Some coworkers told to just remove the lines from /etc/passwd and
|/etc/master.passwd... I did that but the user still can authenticate.
|
|using "pw user show XXX" returns that still have a register from the user
|XXX but trying the "pw user del XXX" it says there is no such user..
|
|I tried rmuser and here is the return:
|
|# rmuser XXX
|Matching password entry:
|
|XXX:*:20887:1014::0:0:XXXXX XXXXX:/home/XXX:/nonexistent
|
|Is this the entry you wish to remove? y
|Remove user's home directory (/home/XXXX)? y
|Removing user (XXX): home passwdpw: user 'XXX' does not exist: No such file
|or directory
|
One of simpliest ways to remove user is the `vipw' command. vipw opens
master.passwd file in vi editor. After removing nesessary string vipw
rebuild user's database. After that your can just remove user's home
directory and even say locate.updatedb if you don't want to see removed
user via `locate' :)
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