severity 535857 normal thanks On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Zak Wilcox wrote: > > 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.
Thanks for catchting, there is a missing conistency check. We will make --backup-to imply --backup, but without any output. The manpage will updated accordingly. The fix is committed to the repository and will be included in the next version. Jörg -- What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. -Schroedinger's wife
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