Adduser devel - Sep 2009 - Bug#545024: adduser: deluser does not delete pipes or sockets

Package: adduser
Version: 3.110
Severity: important

This is related to bug #430640, but I couldn''t mail to
430640@bugs.debian.org.
There it was reported and finally fixed for the case one
does a backup, but just trying
  deluser --remove-home <user>
still won''t delete pipes or sockets, and therefore also
the whole home directory will not be deleted.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, ''stable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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-show failed

severity 545024 normal
thanks

Hi 

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:18:03PM +0200, Christian Sievers
wrote:
> Package: adduser
> Version: 3.110
> Severity: important
> 
> This is related to bug #430640, but I couldn''t mail to
> 430640 at bugs.debian.org.
> There it was reported and finally fixed for the case one
> does a backup, but just trying
>   deluser --remove-home <user>
> still won''t delete pipes or sockets, and therefore also
> the whole home directory will not be deleted.
I can confirm that, sockets are not removed.

/usr/sbin/deluser, line 299
> (-s $File::Find::name && push(@dirs, $File::Find::name)) ||
that should be a capital "S", I will fix that. But I cannot confirm it
for
named pipes/fifos.


But deluser still does not remove block or character devices then. I will
add a warning if deluser encounters such a "file".

Joerg

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Bug #545024 [adduser] adduser: deluser does not delete pipes or sockets
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Hello,

I tried in a debootstrap''ed sid chroot, and there
  deluser --remove-home <user>
still didn''t delete named pipes.


All the best,
Christian Sievers