On 06/01/2010 12:12 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > 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 > @Alan : great and righly said.... -- Saurabh Sharma Linux user number: 490644 http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/ Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows -- 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
