Hi,
Thanks for all your replies.
I built a small script that based on codesearch-cli tries to
approximate(*) the current state and
here is its current output:
[preinst]
adduser: 1 useradd: 5 both: 0 ()
deluser: 0 userdel: 0 both: 0 ()
addgroup: 12 groupadd: 3 both: 0 ()
delgroup: 0 groupdel: 0 both: 0 ()
[postinst]
adduser: 16 useradd: 20 both: 0 ()
deluser: 4 userdel: 1 both: 0 ()
addgroup: 131 groupadd: 23 both: 1
(x2gothinclient_1.5.0.1-8.1/debian/x2gothinclient-common.postinst )
delgroup: 3 groupdel: 3 both: 0 ()
[prerm]
adduser: 0 useradd: 0 both: 0 ()
deluser: 0 userdel: 2 both: 0 ()
addgroup: 0 groupadd: 0 both: 0 ()
delgroup: 3 groupdel: 0 both: 0 ()
[postrm]
adduser: 0 useradd: 0 both: 0 ()
deluser: 69 userdel: 78 both: 0 ()
addgroup: 0 groupadd: 0 both: 0 ()
delgroup: 116 groupdel: 29 both: 7
(apt-cacher-ng_3.7.4-1/debian/apt-cacher-ng.postrm
gophernicus_3.1.1-3/debian/postrm mrtg_2.17.10-5/debian/mrtg.postrm
openiked_7.2-1/debian/postrm opensmtpd_6.8.0p2-4/debian/postrm
opensmtpd-filter-dkimsign_0.5-2/debian/postrm
zoph_1.0.1-4/debian/postrm )
I already checked x2gothinclient that was interesting and reported in
#1034755: x2gothinclient-common: about .postinst and .postrm scripts
I also reported to x2goserver-common (#1034758) due to piuparts.
I am facing so many different approaches, that's funny!
But for sure I did not encounter yet something like the following:
if ! getent passwd XXXXX >/dev/null; then
if command -v deluser >/dev/null 2>&1; then
deluser --quiet XXXXX || true
elif command -v userdel >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
userdel XXXXX || true
else
echo "warning: user XXXXX may still exist."
fi
fi
or what could be a nicer solution.
One of my main points here is that a sysadmin may not be notified by
the remaining user/group
when just a 'command not found' was avoided by (deluser/delgroup ... || true)
Cheers,
Patrice
(*) there may still be few over estimated numbers due to the search
string not matching a command but a comment or something else (I tried
to exclude a match to adduser.conf file).
