From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: When you delete a user, the user is effectively deleted (as far as the system is concerned), but the home directory and mail spool files still remain. An option should allow the administrator to remove these left over directories and files should be provided. This option should be optional so that the administrator can back these files up - however, on systems where users are constantly added and deleted, it is important to clean these potentially large directories and/or files. Another option to remove any files belonging to said user could be provided to further clean a system with leftovers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Delete a user that no longer needs an account using the redhat-config-users application. Actual Results: User is "deleted" but leftover files remain. Expected Results: *see description* Additional info: $ rpm -qf `which redhat-config-users` redhat-config-users-1.1.1-2
*** Bug 78620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I filed Bug 78620 (which you marked as a duplicate) - one bug deals with left over files. One bug deals with the inability for the application to remove an entry in the groups file. Are they necessarily duplicate?
Sorry, I read too quickly. Thanks for the correction.
Ok, redhat-config-users-1.1.2-1 now pops up a dialog asking you if you want to delete the user's home directory. Thanks for your report. QA, please verify.
* redhat-config-users-1.1.2-2 The dialog is present, but broken. If you click no, then the dialog exits and the directory remains, *however* if you click yes, then the dialog remains, and becomes stuck (so that neither button closes it) and the home directory is not deleted. Also, then dialog does not appear at all when the user does not have a private group. (You can kill the dialog with the X in on the window dressing, btw) I propose this feature be merged with the other user delete options. Please see bug#69712
I agree that the delete dialogs should be merged. However, I'm unable to reproduce the problem with the program hanging when clicking "No" in the popup dialogs.
Actually, merging the dialogs was going to look pretty clunky UI wise (it already was clunky with two separate dialogs anyway. So I've removed the group deletion dialog (see bug #78620 for explanation). Therefore, the dialogs don't need to be merged since the home directory deletion dialog is the only one shown. Also, the dialog will not be shown if the user has no home directory. Please test with redhat-config-users-1.1.3-3