From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich 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 Message-ID: <8760n3lvx4.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87r35sxvbx.fsf@gmail.com> <87h96oez1v.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCPjd-0000Xf-Dd for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 06:41:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCPja-0001A8-AU for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 06:41:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCPja-0001A4-79 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 06:41:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCPjZ-0007e5-VE for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 06:41:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87h96oez1v.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:14:36 -0500") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: 25080@debbugs.gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi, > > Chris Marusich 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. =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYQAwnAAoJEN1AmhXYIkad20wQAJXdvdr5WSRz/FrMYfkePCNK KP7In5jaIVMXQqJ/aTzaITdyiz6GQMgKTV+YyGP1XaWWbAGjjoZRw35hAufTUU8t B/ALCjouNSfHW9IBUbLI9ISNOZ2S4b6O2loLfeaqe3i5dY14QxOY0o8LB0Og3MWc jWISj8pqc00EQFAxsbbq9ELQTy8FPtCjaokOPir5b+M+VOS5fn+CCgqbOkwm90/b X7D+eD/lHr2kdc2D723k++kFbG+9a2JIfo7oE9WHhOY7E035JN7smSveLWEepdQC cNCKLz3fKW95lKIp4gtIiRwJwCRvUpKRABnlx7CQQaTMMIBiHGYM8SWsS61OBoNZ O7rYZhegDSXLLp5vWgN9TXuNR5PNHK7cijbA81pQ4T/Al4HU/Qb0mCv3RBRg9Msz yZXdpe+6CqTLdCP5O/E4dtvHiUbLlHfBUOXXUvVYEPmIAdd/+v9KB+BOmd4f2Q74 tZWzhVZLH8Ne4aMk+x6VA9pzzO2Hk9oMdjdlnopexMmQA55BXZGnPs0d2BGFuNpX GKUghieqmV7RT0nnpbw6AvYttwwywReSbbzbVOPn3F5bFQIVVg6CGAddditzUvB1 ovKILtyCoqmBLPHv/sRgK77im2KXdJ7hzXQTbu+htS5tz4as5TEQ2VA6K760iG8k EIKCVmKMHraWtauAJ4ox =DWzu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--