Adduser devel - May 2010 - Bug#545714: deluser does not remove empty main group when the suer is member of it

By not adding the user (a second time) to its maingroup in /etc/groups,
adduser identifies the group as a user private group, and is able to
remove the group together with the user, if the group is not used
otherwise (standard case for debian UPGs).[0]

So "deluser does not remove empty main group when the suer is
member of it" because the "suer" ;-) in his own group means, the
group
was not created by the means of adduser with user private groups
enabled.

Does that answer your question so you can
close 545714


[0]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/adduser-devel/2008-February/003161.html

retitle #545714 deluser does not remove empty main group when the user is member
of it
thanks

Hi Milan,

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:03:19AM +0200, C. Gatzemeier
wrote:
> Does that answer your question so you can
> close 545714
May I remind?

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> retitle #545714 deluser does not remove empty main group when the user is
member of it
Bug #545714 [adduser] deluser does not remove empty main group when the suer is
member of it
Changed Bug title to ''deluser does not remove empty main group when the
user is member of it'' from ''deluser does not remove empty main
group when the suer is member of it''
> thanks
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Le mercredi 23 novembre 2011 ? 09:52 +0100, Marc Haber a ?crit
:
> retitle #545714 deluser does not remove empty main group when the user is
member of it
> thanks
> 
> Hi Milan,
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:03:19AM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote:
> > Does that answer your question so you can
> > close 545714
> 
> May I remind?
Ah, sorry, for some reason I must have missed that question. It''s sad
because back at the time I would have been very interested in the
reply. ;-)

But now I don''t even remember what solution I found. I think user-admin
no longer adds new users to their main group (at least I can''t find
such
an operation in the code), but I can''t find when that behavior was
changed.

I still think the error message that is printed when the user was *not*
member of his main group, which is:
"Warning: group X is now empty."
should be fixed, as it is clearly wrong. This warning should be printed
when the group *is not* removed ; and when the group is removed, deluser
would better say:
"Empty group X has been automatically deleted."