On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 11:22:56AM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote:
> Third, I believe that this is a case of "deluser" being a bit too
> helpful. We should only be worried about whether a group is empty or not
> when deleting a group. Otherwise, it is on the sysadmin to check for
> empty groups if the
Greetings:
I thought I would go ahead and confirm this one. I noticed it myself
today, and I wanted to follow up here.
I recommend that we remove the check and the warning entirely.
First, the warning is already incorrect. It may mislead someone into
thinking that they can remove a group that st
Control: severity #473379 minor
Hi,
this is caused by the libc call getpwuid which does seem to ignore the
primary groups of users, as it only returns "the broken-out fields of
the record in the password database".
I would recommend removing the kind of misleading warning and/or rewording it.
G
Still happens in Jessie.
Package: adduser
Version: 3.107
When deleting a user which is a member of the `users' group, `deluser'
gives an incorrect warning:
| [10:58:14]~# deluser foo
| Removing user `foo' ...
| Warning: group `users' has no more members.
| Done.
| [10:59:14]~#
While there are no members of this group le
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