Debian Bug report logs - #535857
adduser: --backup-to silently ignored without --backup

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Zak Wilcox <noreply@rosamundcoppen.co.uk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: adduser: --backup-to silently ignored without --backup

Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:53:10 +0100

Package: adduser
Version: 3.110
Severity: important

When you delete a user and want to create a backup of their home directory
in a specific place, a read of the manpage could easily fool you into
thinking that the following would do the trick:
  deluser --remove-home --backup-to /root/deleted-users/ joe
What this actually does is remove joe's home directory without making any
backup or confirming the deletion.  By the time you realise this the contents
of joe's home directory are gone for good.  I found this out the hard way.

IMHO:
 * --backup-to should (verbosely) imply --backup, or
 * --backup-to should loudly refuse to act without --backup
and the man page needs updating.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.1.1-6  change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.10.0-19  minimal Perl system

adduser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl        1.05-4     Using libc functions for internati
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.0-19  Core Perl modules

-- debconf information:
* adduser/homedir-permission: true

Message #10 received at 535857@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joerg Hoh <joerg@joerghoh.de>

To: 535857@bugs.debian.org, 535857-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#535857: adduser: --backup-to silently ignored without --backup

Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:36:59 +0200

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severity 535857 normal
thanks

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Zak Wilcox wrote:
> 
> When you delete a user and want to create a backup of their home directory
> in a specific place, a read of the manpage could easily fool you into
> thinking that the following would do the trick:
>   deluser --remove-home --backup-to /root/deleted-users/ joe
> What this actually does is remove joe's home directory without making any
> backup or confirming the deletion.  By the time you realise this the contents
> of joe's home directory are gone for good.  I found this out the hard way.
> 
> IMHO:
>  * --backup-to should (verbosely) imply --backup, or
>  * --backup-to should loudly refuse to act without --backup
> and the man page needs updating.

Thanks for catchting, there is a missing conistency check.

We will make --backup-to imply --backup, but without any output. The
manpage will updated accordingly.

The fix is committed to the repository and will be included in the next
version.

Jörg

-- 
What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. -Schroedinger's wife

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Message #18 received at 535857-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: 535857-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#535857: fixed in adduser 3.111

Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:19:17 +0000

Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.111

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

adduser_3.111.dsc
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111.dsc
adduser_3.111.tar.gz
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111.tar.gz
adduser_3.111_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.111_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 535857@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> (supplier of updated adduser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:09:53 +0100
Source: adduser
Binary: adduser
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.111
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
Description: 
 adduser    - add and remove users and groups
Closes: 502150 515909 515909 517505 520586 535857 544504 545024 545475
Changes: 
 adduser (3.111) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Joerg Hoh ]
   * deluser: --backup-to implies --backup; thanks Zak Wilcox (closes: #535857)
   * deluser: sockets should also be backupped and removed (closes: #545024),
     thanks Christian Sievers for spotting.
   * allow underscores again in usernames (closes: #520586)
   * remove the "games" group from the EXTRA_GROUPS example (closes: #502150)
   * really warn if a user is already present when creating a new system user
     (closes: 515909)
   * document the interaction between --system and --close (closes: #515909)
 .
   [ Stephen Gran ]
   * Update po4a calls
   * Translations:
     - fr (thanks Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
       closes: #545475)
     - sv (thanks Daniel Nylander <yeager@ubuntu.com> closes: #517505)
     - zh_CN (thanks Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com> closes: #544504)
   * update standards version - no changes
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