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Re: Is this a bug?



On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:06:26PM +0530, Mahesh M wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how well it
> works, I tried the following command:
>                    deluser root
> And to my surprise, root was deleted. Is that good? Self-termination,
> suiside!!!
> I dont know if this is a bug, or if it has been kept for some kind of
> flexibility.
> 
> I feel that deluser should not delete the root, even though it may be able
> to delete other priviledged users.
> 
So then, don't try and delete the root user.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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