Bug 1916 – userdel doesn't delete user private group any more

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Bug 1916 - userdel doesn't delete user private group any more

Summary:	userdel doesn't delete user private group any more

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	shadow-utils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	1999-03-31 11:05 EST by Michael K. Johnson
Modified:	2015-01-07 18:36 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-03-31 23:18:08 EST
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Description Michael K. Johnson 1999-03-31 11:05:23 EST

userdel used to delete user private groups if they had
the same name as the user, but it does not seem to do
that now.

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 1999-03-31 11:33:59 EST

I don't think it ever used to do that. That is what groupdel does.

Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 1999-03-31 11:39:59 EST

useradd adds user private groups.  userdel should delete them.
groupadd adds other groups.  groupdel should be used to delete
those.  But automagically added groups should be automagically
deleted.

If userdel never did that (I'll have to check) then it is a bug,
as we agreed long ago that it should...

Comment 3 Michael K. Johnson 1999-03-31 14:38:59 EST

useradd adds user private groups.  userdel should delete them.
groupadd adds other groups.  groupdel should be used to delete
those.  But automagically added groups should be automagically
deleted.

If userdel never did that (I'll have to check) then it is a bug,
as we agreed long ago that it should...

Comment 4 Michael K. Johnson 1999-03-31 14:42:59 EST

OK, userdel needs to have a command-line option to call groupdel
(it currently doesn't seem to)

Comment 5 Preston Brown 1999-03-31 17:31:59 EST

michael, can you handle this?

Comment 6 Michael K. Johnson 1999-03-31 23:18:59 EST

Fixed in shadow-utils-980403-9
userdel now removes the user's primary group IFF
 o the group name and and the user name are the same
 o no other user has the same primary group id
 o no other users are listed in the group list for the primary group

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