[Pkg-shadow-devel] usermod -d and "user ... is currently in use"
Serge Hallyn
serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Wed May 28 15:16:16 UTC 2014
Quoting Andy Lutomirski (luto at amacapital.net):
> $ sudo usermod -d /some/dir user
> usermod: user user is currently used by process 6088
>
> I *know* that the user is in use. I don't care. I'm not specifying
> -m; nothing terribly will happen.
>
> Please consider either removing this check in this case or adding a
> force option.
I think adding a force option makes sense.
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