Thanks to all those who responded, particularly,
Scott B. Skeate
Donn Aiken
Girish Phadke
John Speno
Dr. Marco Luchini
Benjamin Smith
Mark Ray
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> If a try to create an account with the same user, it will not allow
> me to do so. It still sees the retired account as having that name.
> I was wondering if I deleted the retired entry from the /etc/passwd
> file if it would remove the retired icon from the GUI.
ANSWER:
/usr/tcb/bin/edauth -r username
followed by
vi /etc/passwd...
delete line with retired user
Keith C. Barth
Network Administrator
Information and Technology Services
Aquinas College
1607 Robinson Road, SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
mailto:barthkei_at_aquinas.edu
Received on Thu Jan 07 1999 - 18:52:42 NZDT