Re: [Fedora] 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

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On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:

> 1rst pass: The user has been deleted. No bug.
> 2nd pass : There is no more user to delete. What to expect?

But the operation wasn't atomic, since userdel was asked to delete the
home directory on the 1st pass. It reported that it couldn't complete
the operation because the user was logged in. However it carried on
deleting the user and not deleting the home directory.

> Argument: user's HOME is not always under /home/. If there
> is /home/test and /tmp/test and /var/lib/test, which one to delete
> after the first pass?

The user's home directory is wherever /etc/passwd says it is. If the
user hadn't been deleted in the 1st pass then removing the home
directory in the 2nd pass wouldn't have been a problem. Userdel should
determine before it does anything whether it expects to complete the
requested operation totally. If not then it shouldn't do anything.

Failing that, it should at least provide a message during the first
pass that suggests that it did delete the user but couldn't delete the
home directory. That's not really what the first pass error suggested.

-Alan
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