[Adduser-devel] Bug#472349: Bug#472349: Bug#472349: Bug#472349: adduser: please delay more than 5 seconds during deluser root

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Joerg Hoh said:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:13:57AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > 
> > This bug is mostly harmless when deluser is called without a foolish
> > flag like --remove-home or worse, --remove-all-files.  It is possible,
> > of course, to say "no, you can't ever do that", but I do feel a little
> > uncomfortable second guessing an admin who wants to do something
> > drastically stupid - unix doesn't generally do that.
> > 
> > I agree that the harm caused by allowing people to effectively ask for
> > removal of the root account and all files that are uid 0 is stupid, so
> > what I propose is: allow removal of a uid 0 account, provided the
> > username is not root.  Also, fail before doing anything if either of
> > --remove-home or --remove-all-files is given.  Seem reasonable?
> 
> I would suggest to introduce a new parameter "--force"; without this flag
> deluser refuses to remove the "root" account, but with this flag, deluser
> will print a warning and then remove the account. 

Seems reasonable as well.
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