Package: adduser Version: 3.110 Severity: normal Deluser(8) writes: --system Only delete if user/group is a system user/group. This avoids accidentally deleting non-system users/groups. Additionally, if the user does not exist, no error value is returned. This option is mainly for use in Debian package maintainer scripts. Actually in case of deleting non-existent group the exit code is 3 even if I give --system option. Regards Gabor -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, ''stable''), (500, ''proposed-updates'') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) 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 5.10.0-19lenny2 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 5.10.0-19lenny2 Core Perl modules -- debconf information: * adduser/homedir-permission: true