On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:05:55PM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > 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: > >> 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 > >> > > 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
This should be 'userdel -D -p true' according to userdel(8). 'userdel -p true user' also works if preserve has not been set to true (one way or another), which is perhaps not obvious from the syopsis.
