Bug 454091

Summary:	luserdel -r does not remove user's mailbox
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component:	libuser	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Milos Malik 2008-07-04 14:57:12 UTC

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Description of problem:
luserdel -r removes the user and his/her home directory but it leaves his/her mailbox in /var/spool/mail. 

Proposal:
1) Enhance the implementation of "-r" parameter so that luserdel will remove the mailbox too.
2) Implement a new parameter so that the home directory removal is independent on the mailbox removal.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libuser-0.56.6-2

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. luseradd testuser
2. luserdel -r testuser
3. ls -l /var/spool/mail/testuser

Actual Results:
Mailbox file in /var/spool/mail is present.

Expected Results:
Mailbox file in /var/spool/mail is not present.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Milos Malik 2008-07-16 13:29:07 UTC

RHTS test for this bug is available (
/CoreOS/libuser/Regression/bz454091-luserdel--r-ignores-users-mailbox ).

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:57:19 UTC

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Comment 3 Miloslav Trmač 2009-05-23 08:49:19 UTC

Fixed in hg tip.

Comment 4 Miloslav Trmač 2009-09-14 17:18:29 UTC

Fixed in rawhide libuser-0.56.11-1.  Thanks for your report.