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Old 11-18-2002
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Re: past login still exist in the system

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Originally posted by yls177
hi, i noticed that there are still past logins which have not been terminated. how should i removed them?
i am on aix.
Depends on the operating system.

On some OSs you could go and removed the offending entries from the /etc/passwd and/or /etc/shadow and /etc/groups.

Under FreeBSD, you can use vipw to remove entries (FreeBSD also uses a /etc/master.passwd instead of /etc/shadow).

Have you verified that none of these accounts are used for cron-jobs or suid's?