On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > 1rst pass: The user has been deleted. No bug. > 2nd pass : There is no more user to delete. What to expect? But the operation wasn't atomic, since userdel was asked to delete the home directory on the 1st pass. It reported that it couldn't complete the operation because the user was logged in. However it carried on deleting the user and not deleting the home directory. > Argument: user's HOME is not always under /home/. If there > is /home/test and /tmp/test and /var/lib/test, which one to delete > after the first pass? The user's home directory is wherever /etc/passwd says it is. If the user hadn't been deleted in the 1st pass then removing the home directory in the 2nd pass wouldn't have been a problem. Userdel should determine before it does anything whether it expects to complete the requested operation totally. If not then it shouldn't do anything. Failing that, it should at least provide a message during the first pass that suggests that it did delete the user but couldn't delete the home directory. That's not really what the first pass error suggested. -Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
