Geoffrey Thomas
2011-Jun-13 04:46 UTC
Bug#630340: deluser: Please add AFS to the list of excluded filesystems
Package: adduser Version: 3.112+nmu2 Hi, Please add afs to EXCLUDE_FSTYPES in /etc/deluser.conf. The AFS networked filesystem by nature is a global filesystem -- unlike NFS, where you mount a single export at a time, the AFS client creates /afs with all publicly-advertised cells, and you access files through e.g. /afs/athena.mit.edu/. Therefore, a recursive search of /afs for files owned by a certain user will effectively not terminate, since it will attempt to contact every listed AFS site worldwide (several of which may be unresponsive or slow), and due to AFS'' permissions structure, --remove-all-files searching AFS as the local machine''s root user will certainly not be useful. (Personally, I''d think nfs belongs in EXCLUDE_FSTYPES too, but I can see arguments that it works in some environments, or that home directories live in NFS, and that therefore it shouldn''t be a global default. But AFS should be excluded as a global default.) Thanks, -- Geoffrey Thomas geofft@mit.edu
Debian Bug Tracking System
2011-Jun-13 19:51 UTC
[Adduser-devel] Bug#630340: marked as done (deluser: Please add AFS to the list of excluded filesystems)
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