[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#173431: marked as done (passwd: userdel could remove user crontab files)

Fri Oct 7 15:33:15 UTC 2005

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Subject: passwd: userdel could remove user crontab files
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Package: passwd
Version: 20000902-12
Severity: wishlist

  Hi,

    In the manpage of "userdel", I can read this:
      -r     Files  in  the  user's home directory will be removed along with the home
             directory itself and the user's mail spool.  Files located in other  file
             systems will have to be searched for and deleted manually.

    I think "userdel -r" could also remove the crontabs of the user at
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/$USER

  Thanks,
    Pedro

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mantis 2.2.20 #1 Sat Apr 20 11:45:28 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=pt_BR, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-5     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules               0.72-35     Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                     0.72-35     Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  login                        20000902-12 System login tools

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From: Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
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Subject: Such feature belongs to deluser not userdel
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The requested feature ("userdel could remove user crontab files") is
too dependent on the local system configuration. Utilities from the
shadow source package are likely to be used in many systems.

In short, userdel is a too low level utility for such a high level
feature.

Given that Debian specific utility named "deluser" already implements
the requested feature through the "--remove-all-files" switch, I
consider there is no real need to ask such new feature to our upstream.

As a consequence, I'll close this bug.

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