[Adduser-devel] Bug#308175: adduser: check whether group can be deleted before starting deluser operation

[Marc Haber]

Package: adduser
Version: 3.63
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

if (implicit?) deletion of a group is asked for, adduser should check
whether the group is empty (including a check for the group being
primary group for a different user) and refuse the operation if
deleting the group would leave the system in an inconsistent state.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-zgserver
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.4.48           Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                  1:4.0.3-31sarge3 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base               5.8.4-8          The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

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