[Adduser-devel] Bug#551929: deluser: creates backup of user's files when not requested

[Frans Pop]

severity 551929 serious
thanks

I ran into this too. Raising severity as IMO this bug makes the current 
version of adduser unsuitable to be released with Squeeze.

deluser should not be creating a backup tarball when not asked to do so.

$ sudo deluser --remove-home thibaut
Looking for files to backup/remove ...
Backing up files to be removed to . ...
backup_name = ./thibaut.tar/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Removing files ...
Removing user `thibaut' ...
Warning: group `thibaut' has no more members.
Done.

My config file is (comments removed):
$ cat /etc/deluser.conf
REMOVE_HOME = 0
REMOVE_ALL_FILES = 0
BACKUP = 0
BACKUP_TO = "."
ONLY_IF_EMPTY = 0
EXCLUDE_FSTYPES = "(proc|sysfs|usbfs|devpts|tmpfs)"

Cheers,
FJP