[Adduser-devel] Bug#472349: Bug#472349: adduser: please delay more than 5 seconds during deluser root

[Justin Pryzby]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:59:57PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:13:57AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Paul Johnson said:
> > > On Sunday 23 March 2008 10:53:15 am Justin Pryzby wrote:

> > This bug is mostly harmless when deluser is called without a foolish
> > flag like --remove-home or worse, --remove-all-files.
> Really?  
Sorry, I meant to expand on that.  After removing root's passwd,
shadow and group entries, neither su nor sudo works (although single
user mode might), and I suspect pam prevents things like cron from
running normally.

Justin