Address this by using getpwnam(), thus killing several birds with
the same stone. My fix is slightly more aggressive than the
originators. :)
PR: misc/22278
from /var/mail, added a routine to delete the removed user's files
from /tmp, /var/tmp, & /var/tmp/vi.recover, and added code to kill any
running processes owned by the removed user). I've also added a flag
for non-interactive execution, cleaned up the man page, and adjusted
my address.
Submitted by: ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu (Guy Helmer)
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.