On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Tomas Bodzar <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Richard Toohey
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi, guys.
>>
>> I wanted to disable a user account under OpenBSD 4.9, and Google led me
here:
>>
>> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#AddDelUser
>>
>> <quote>Removing users
>>
>> To remove users with the user(8) hierarchy of commands, you will use
>> userdel(8). This is a very simple, yet usable command. To remove the user
>> created in the last example, simply:
>>
>> # userdel -r testuser
>> Notice the -r option, which must be specified if you want the users home
>> directory to be deleted as well. Alternatively, you can specify -p and not
-r
>> and this will lock the user's account, but not remove any
>> information.</unquote>
>>
>> That last sentence - sounds exactly like what I need - so I try it:
>>
>> # userdel -p testuser
>> usage: userdel -D [-p preserve-value]
>> B B B userdel [-prv] user
>>
>> The man page suggests that it should work as well.
>>
>> Looks like it has been raised before:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01370.html
>>
>> No patches because I'm not exactly sure what the "right" answer(s) are.
>>
>> Am I just doing it wrong?
>
> $ id test
> uid=1001(test) gid=1001(test) groups=1001(test)
> $ sudo userdel -pv test
> $ id test
> id: test: No such user
> $ grep test /etc/passwd
> $ ls -ld /home/test
> drwxr-xr-x B 3 1001 B test B 512 Sep 15 11:52 /home/test
> $
> $ sudo chsh test
> chsh: unknown user: test
> $
> $ sudo userdel -pv test
> userdel: No such user `test'
> $
>
>
> I'm on current. Anyway strange that -v switch doesn't provide verbose
> output in fact and that information in password file was not preserved
> in fact. User disappeared somewhere, but where :-) Files are in place
> as you can see.
>$ sudo rm -rf /home/test/
$ userdel -D
preserve false
$ userdel -p true
usage: userdel -D [-p preserve-value]
userdel [-prv] user
$ userdel -p yes
usage: userdel -D [-p preserve-value]
userdel [-prv] user
$ userdel -p 1
usage: userdel -D [-p preserve-value]
userdel [-prv] user
$ vi /etc/usermgmt.conf
$ sudo vi /etc/usermgmt.conf
$ userdel -D
preserve true
$ useradd -c 'Testing user' -m test
useradd: Program must be run as root
$ sudo useradd -c 'Testing user' -m test
$ id test
uid=1001(test) gid=10(users) groups=10(users)
$
$ grep test /etc/passwd
test:*:1001:10:Testing user:/home/test:/bin/ksh
$ ls -ld /home/test
drwxr-xr-x 3 test users 512 Sep 12 09:53 /home/test
$ sudo userdel -pv test
$ grep test /etc/passwd
$ id test
id: test: No such user
$ ls -ld /home/test
drwxr-xr-x 3 1001 users 512 Sep 12 09:53 /home/test
$
Looks like userdel -p in its first form doesn't work because you need
to set preserve in /etc/usermgmt.conf file to get it in true state and
even after that login informations are not preserved, just home
directory. So something is maybe really wrong?
>
>>
>> Thanks.
