On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Gabor Kiss wrote: > Deluser(8) writes: > --system > Only delete if user/group is a system user/group. This avoids > accidentally deleting non-system users/groups. Additionally, if > the user does not exist, no error value is returned. This option > is mainly for use in Debian package maintainer scripts. > > Actually in case of deleting non-existent group the exit code is 3 even > if I give --system option.
I agree with that twelve years later. Maybe we should deluser --force have this behavior even for non-system users since people using deluser probably only care about the result, the user being gone after the call. Greetings Marc
