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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL-7.0-20140109.n.0
Steps to Reproduce:
Add a user account you won't mind deleting
1. Go to User Accounts (Settings)
2. Unlock settings
3. Click on the account you'd like to delete
4. Click on the - sign below.
5. Click 'Keep files'
Actual results:
dialog window pops-up: running '/usr/sbin/userdel' failed: Child process exited with code 8
Expected results:
The account should be removed and his home directory shouldn't be deleted
Exit code 8 means: user is still logged in. We could certainly provide a better error message here. If you choose 'delete', we pass -f to userdel, so it goes ahead even though the user is still logged in.
(In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #2)
> Exit code 8 means: user is still logged in. We could certainly provide a
> better error message here. If you choose 'delete', we pass -f to userdel, so
> it goes ahead even though the user is still logged in.
The only problem is that user was not logged in, when I tested this.
Using the reproducer in the description, I was able to delete a user and keep their files without an error message. The home folder also remained on the system correctly.
Verified.
I should clarify that with a user logged into the machine via SSH, the error message when trying to delete the user has been appropriately changed. Still verified.
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.
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