Bug 85175 - links followed outside home directory during user deletion
Summary: links followed outside home directory during user deletion
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-config-users
Version: phoebe
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
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Blocks: 79578 84358
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-02-26 05:13 UTC by Matt Whiteley
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-02-27 06:30:32 UTC
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Description Matt Whiteley 2003-02-26 05:13:41 UTC
Description of problem:
Symlinks are followed while removing the home directory in response to the
remove home directory question while removing a user with redhat-config-users.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat-config-users-1.1.5-5

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create user
2. Create symlink to directory in path outside /home/$user
3. Remove user and select remove home directory
    
Actual results:
The symlink is followed and the directory outside the home directory is removed.

Expected results:
The symlink in the home directory is removed along with the directory leaving
the files in /$other/$path intact.

Additional info:
I was not sure if this was my fault or a bug but the consensus on
phoebe-list seemed to be towards bug.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-02-26 20:23:13 UTC
Fixed in 1.1.5-7

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2003-02-27 06:30:32 UTC
Fix confirmed for redhat-config-users-1.1.5-7.


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