Re: Is this a bug?

[James Stevenson <james@stev.org>]

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.
root is only really root because it is named root in /etc/passwd what if 
i did deluser root ?
Well it may not be able to find that user ...

Windows will also let you blow thigns away like this in Active Directory ?

Not sure why you consider this to be a bug.