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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <223@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 11:22:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 11:22:17 1986
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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Re: running jobs that bring the system to its knees.

There is another way to deal with getting rid of such jobs. Let's
assume the user's login name is 'john', then the following is effective:

	rm -r ~john
	ed /etc/passwd
	/^john:/d
	w
	q

Try it, you'd be amazed how well it works, especially right after a
re-boot (:-).

	-Barry Shein, Boston University