Adduser devel - May 2008 - Bug#481352: adduser: --backup backs up to file called "--bzip2"

Package: adduser
Version: 3.107
Severity: normal


deluser --backup backs up the home directory of the to be deleted user to a file
called --bzip2. The order of the arguments in deluser is incorrect, changing
line
325 by placing $backup_name directly after the "-cf" fixes the
problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, ''unstable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.1.1-1  change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.10.0-10  The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

Hi

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:36:29PM +0200, Otto Visser
wrote:
> 
> deluser --backup backs up the home directory of the to be deleted user to a
file
> called --bzip2. The order of the arguments in deluser is incorrect,
changing line
> 325 by placing $backup_name directly after the "-cf" fixes the
problem.
Thanks for spotting. Fixed in SVN.

         }
-        &systemcall($tar, "-cf", $options, $backup_name,
"--files-from", $filesfilename);
+        &systemcall($tar, $options, "-cf", $backup_name,
"--files-from", $filesfilename);
         chmod 0600, $backup_name;
          my $rootid = 0;
         chown $rootid, $rootid, $backup_name;


J?rg

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and subject line Bug#481352: fixed in adduser 3.108
has caused the Debian Bug report #481352,
regarding adduser: --backup backs up to file called "--bzip2"
to be marked as done.

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