[Adduser-devel] Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Should userdel remove users crontabs?

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Tomasz Kłoczko (kloczek@zie.pg.gda.pl):
> On Wed, 25 May 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> > > Christian look on comment in src/userdel.c::user_cancel():
> > 
> > Sure. Nice example. Probably a bit too hardcoded, depending on
> > various cron and print system things (especially print systems).
> 
> For this better will be better hook kind of skeleton script like:
> 
> for i in /usr/lib/userdel.d/*.sh ; do
>         if [ -x $i ]; then
>                 . $i
>         fi
> done
> 
> and all what is neccessary on user del will done depending on partial 
> scripts installed by crond, lpr .. and other packages.


The idea seems interesting. It would immediately draw, for Debian, the
question of The Right Place for this userdel.d directory (probably
/etc/userdel.d if the policy allows this.

However, again, the debate is whether this pertains to a low-level
utility or, again, to a high level one (such as deluser).

It seems to be this is converging towards a feature planned for
adduser/deluser, according to Marc Haber's recent mail about another
bug we analysed.