Adduser devel - Feb 2006 - Bug#352496: deluser (3.82): unable to delete any user

Package: adduser
Version: 3.82
Severity: serious

Hi,

I can no longer remove any user from my system using deluser.

# grep test /etc/passwd
test:x:1003:1003::/home/test:/bin/bash

# deluser test
Undefined argument in option spec

Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, ''unstable''), (1,
''experimental'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.70     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.0.14-6 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.8.8-2    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* adduser/homedir-permission: true

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tags #352496 confirmed pending
thanks

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:15:26PM +1100, Andrew Lau
wrote:
> I can no longer remove any user from my system using deluser.
> 
> # grep test /etc/passwd
> test:x:1003:1003::/home/test:/bin/bash
> 
> # deluser test
> Undefined argument in option spec
That''s an issue with the new perl that was recently uploaded to
unstable. Workaround: Change $ to \$ in deluser line 84 to read:
            "conf=s" => \$configfile,

The fix is already in svn.

Greetings
Marc

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