Hi Toni,

On Montag, 7. März 2011, Toni Mueller wrote:
> thanks for the heads-up. The command that is not being found, though,
> is "deluser" (part of the "adduser" package). The respective course of
> action in other packages seems to be to leave the user entry in
> /etc/passwd behind, instead of trying 'sed' or something on it to
> remove the entry.
>
> I'm not comfortable with such a solution, either.
>
> What do you recommend, short of simply deleting the references to
> deluser?

use userdel :-) it's part of the passwd package, which is required.

> The adduser package has only priority "important", not "essential". I
> find this a little strange because imho, nobody should manually edit
> these files (also a good way to bypass any PAM configuration).

see above :)


cheers,
        Holger

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