Bug in the deluser applet

Laszlo Papp lpapp at kde.org
Tue Feb 17 16:53:02 UTC 2015


On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1) busybox addgroup user
> 2) busybox adduser -G user testuser1
> 3) busybox adduser -G user testuser2
> 4) busybox deluser testuser1
> 5) grep user /etc/passwd /etc/group
>
> ...
> /etc/passwd:testuser2:x:1010:1007:Linux User,,,:/home/testuser2:/bin/bash
> ...
> /etc/group:user:x:1007:testuser,testuser2
>                                                    ^^^^^^

Apologies; that is wrong copy/paste. I meant to write this:

/etc/group:user:x:1007:testuser1,testuser2
                                    ^^^^^^
> ...
>
> This is not how the desktop util behaves and I agree with the desktop
> util in this case. A non-existent user should not remain in
> /etc/group.
>
> Do you agree or disagree?
>
> Cheers, L.


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