[Adduser-devel] Bug#362409: delgroup --only-if-empty returns error code 1, if group is not empty

[Matthias Klose]

severity 362409 normal
thanks

Marc Haber writes:

> delgroup exits with an error return value if a command cannot be
> executed. delgroup --only-if-empty cannot be executed if the group is
> non-empty. Hence, it is the correct thing to exit with a non-zero exit
> value.

- could you point out a use case where you want this behaviour?

- if you can point out a use case, and do not want to change that
  option, then please add an --ignore-fail-on-non-empty option.

- you cannot differentiate between "group does not exist" and
  "group not empty" in the return code. If I have to find out
  this information with getent myself, why does this option
  exist at all?