Removing ghost users
This occurs when who shows a user as logged on but grep is showing nothing
1. cd /usr/lib/acct
2. ./fwtmp < /etc/utmp > /tmp/utmp
3. edit /tmp/utmp changing 5th column to 8 for ghost user
4. ./fwtmp -ic < /tmp/utmp > /etc/utmp
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