[27558] in Athena Bugs
Re: Deluser should not comb AFS to remove files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Jun 13 00:55:16 2011
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:55:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
To: John Ranson <ranson@mit.edu>
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Hi John,
I've opened a Debian bug requesting that afs be added the EXCLUDE_FSTYPES
variable in /etc/deluser.conf by default, so hopefully this should be
addressed in the next Debian and Ubuntu releases.
If you find deluser --remove-all-files useful in the interim, you should
be able to add afs to that variable on your own systems.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
SIPB Debathena team
debathena@mit.edu
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, John Ranson wrote:
> If you run 'deluser --remove-all-files' to remove a local account, it
> will comb all of AFS to remove their files.
>
> I see this problem on a Ubuntu machine with the Debathena packages,
> but I'm guessing it would also be a problem on a private Debathena
> workstation or any Debian/Ubuntu machine using a networked filesystem.
>
> John
>
