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

[Sawrub <luckysharma11@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/31/2010 09:47 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

So this would be my guess:

 

The first time you invoked userdel, it removed the user from the system (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow) but didn’t delete the home folder because according to lastlog the user was still logged in.  When you invoked it a second time, it failed because the user no longer exists – after all, it deleted the entries from the various system files.  Which left you with all the files in the home folder …

 

Either way, this sounds like a problem with userdel which, if you can recreate it, needs to be reported as a bug.

 

BTW where should i report it any idea, no pointers in the man.

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