Re: deluser ?

[Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:59:44AM -0700, der.hans wrote:

> > in de-debian-user some time ago some people asked for a reverse tool for
> > adduser, like userdel for useradd. Don't you think something like this
> > would be nice? We discussed a few "deluser" should be like "tar"ing the
> 
> debppc:/usr/bin# user
> useradd   userdel   userlist  usermod   users     
> debppc:/usr/bin# user
> debppc:/usr/bin# userdel -?
> userdel: invalid option -- ?
> usage: userdel [-r] name
> 
> Doesn't look like it tars up dirs, but it axes the user. This is on a
> potato ppc system.

Please read the original mail again. Quoting Roland: "like userdel for
useradd". It seems he knew that already.

Anyway, I think I missed part of the problem. userdel seems to reverse most
of the effect of adduser (for example the group is removed as I just noticed) 
but I don't think this is a valid reason for not including another helpful
script in Debian. 

cu
    Torsten

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Torsten Landschoff           Bluehorn@IRC               <torsten@debian.org>
           Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member