[Adduser-devel] Bug#271829: marked as done (adduser deleted _all_ files on my disk from a 'dpkg --purge command')
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From: Ernst Kloppenburg <ernst.kloppenburg@gmx.de>
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Subject: adduser deleted _all_ files on my disk from a 'dpkg --purge command'
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Package: adduser
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Hello,
recently _all_ files on my disk were deleted by issuing a 'dpkg
--purge command'.
A few days ago I did 'dpkg --purge amavisd-new'. The package had
already been deinstalled a long time ago (it was the version
20021227p2-5). Now I also wanted to get rid of the remaining config
files.
Instead I ended up with _all_ files on _all_ mounted partitions
deleted, except symlinks.
I now found out the reason: the postrm script calls 'deluser
--remove-home amavis'. And the home directory of the amavis user was set to
'/' in /etc/passwd on my system, I do not know why.
My conclusion would be that either
- deluser should check that 'home' is reasonable
or
- deluser should always be called with the '--home' option in package
removal scripts
Therefore this bug maybe does not refer to the package but to policy.
E. Kloppenburg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.25 Debian configuration management sy
ii passwd 1:4.0.3-28.3 Change and administer password and
ii perl-base 5.8.4-2 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
-- debconf information excluded
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Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 14:21:10 +0200
From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
To: 293559-done@bugs.debian.org, 283110-done@bugs.debian.org,
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Cc: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Subject: Closing bugs
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These bugs have been tagged as fixed-in-experimental, and are now
being closed completely. That should have happened long ago.
Greetings
Marc
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