[Adduser-devel] Bug#352496: deluser (3.82): unable to delete any user

[Marc Haber]

tags #352496 confirmed pending
thanks

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:15:26PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote:
> I can no longer remove any user from my system using deluser.
> 
> # grep test /etc/passwd
> test:x:1003:1003::/home/test:/bin/bash
> 
> # deluser test
> Undefined argument in option spec

That's an issue with the new perl that was recently uploaded to
unstable. Workaround: Change $ to \$ in deluser line 84 to read:
            "conf=s" => \$configfile,

The fix is already in svn.

Greetings
Marc

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