fails to remove user, but removes home

[Andreas Hasenack]

Binary package hint: adduser

hardy 8.04
adduser-3.105ubuntu1

When "deluser --remove-home testuser" is called while testuser is logged in, the home is removed, but not the user account:

root@maestro:~# deluser --remove-home testuser
Looking for files to backup/remove ...
Removing files ...
Removing user `testuser' ...
Warning: Removing group `testuser', since no other user is part of it.
userdel: user testuser is currently logged in
/usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel testuser' returned error code 8. Exiting.

Now /home/testuser is gone. There is no point in "protecting" the user account removal with the logged in check if the home will be removed.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

deluser, the "low level" utility, works correctly:

root@maestro:~# ls -lad /home/testuser
drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser testuser 4096 2008-06-06 10:58 /home/testuser

root@maestro:~# userdel -r testuser
userdel: user testuser is currently logged in

root@maestro:~# ls -lad /home/testuser
drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser testuser 4096 2008-06-06 10:58 /home/testuser

[Jonathan Compton (jecompton)]

This release is no longer supported. If this is still a problem in a currently supported version (12.04, 13.04, 14.10) create a new bug report.