It's possible your users' information is being cached by the name services cache daemon - try an "nscd -i passwd" (-i = invalidate, ie clear the cached passwd table information) and see if that makes a difference.

Tim

At 09:54 AM 14/02/2004 -0500, you wrote:
I need some insight in understanding this issue.

Two days ago I changed all of the accounts on my Linux server to remove a Prefix that was left over from when the clients account were on a public server. That switch went quite well, very few issues, except for one very major one. Some people are still able to connect to the server using the old user name and password. mind you there is no entry for the old user name in either the password or shadow files. When a user connects using the old user name they see that there is no email in the mailbox. I have walked this through using telnet to port 110 so this is not a client issue... I assume that a reboot of the box will take care of this but This is a real issue. The LINUX Distro is Redhat 9.0

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