[Adduser-devel] Bug#293559: deluser

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I would recommend a more strict check than proposed; rather than "if
> the directory-to-be-removed matches one of several hardcoded regex's",
> I would prefer to see: "If it doesn't look like a manually added
> user":
> 
> if ($usershome !~ ^$DHOME && $force!=true) {
> 	// Warn, exit, whatever
> }
> 
> Where DHOME is easily parsed from adduser.conf.

Are you going to process the gazillion bugs like "didn't remove system
user when purging $PACKAGE"?

Greetings
Marc

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