Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Severity: important When you delete a user and want to create a backup of their home directory in a specific place, a read of the manpage could easily fool you into thinking that the following would do the trick: deluser --remove-home --backup-to /root/deleted-users/ joe What this actually does is remove joe's home directory without making any backup or confirming the deletion. By the time you realise this the contents of joe's home directory are gone for good. I found this out the hard way.
IMHO: * --backup-to should (verbosely) imply --backup, or * --backup-to should loudly refuse to act without --backup and the man page needs updating. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages adduser depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii passwd 1:4.1.1-6 change and administer password and ii perl-base 5.10.0-19 minimal Perl system adduser recommends no packages. Versions of packages adduser suggests: ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4 Using libc functions for internati ii perl-modules 5.10.0-19 Core Perl modules -- debconf information: * adduser/homedir-permission: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
