From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 25080@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25080: When removing a user, 'guix system reconfigure' does not remove the user's home directory
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 03:40:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760n3lvx4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h96oez1v.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:14:36 -0500")
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
>> If you add a user to your operating system configuration file,
>> reconfigure, remove the user, and reconfigure again, then the user's
>> home directory will remain. I expected it to be deleted when I
>> reconfigured the second time.
>>
>> Is this expected behavior?
>
> I think (hope?) so. If I accidentally made a mistake in my system
> configuration and it resulted in the deletion of my home directory, I
> would be *very* angry and probably never trust GuixSD again.
Yeah, I think you're right. Not deleting the directory automatically is
the safe thing to do. Thanks for confirming the behavior is expected.
This bug report can be closed now.
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Chris
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2016-12-01 2:00 bug#25080: When removing a user, 'guix system reconfigure' does not remove the user's home directory Chris Marusich
2016-12-01 10:14 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-12-01 11:40 ` Chris Marusich [this message]
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