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IMO this is critical.
Steps to reproduce (in Kubuntu hardy)
- make sure you have a testuser with a home director,y e.g. "sudo useradd
testuser"
- delete his home directory: "sudo rm /home/testuser"
- Open KDE systemsettings, go to user management.
- click on "administrator mode", get root.
- delete the testuser - you get asked if you want to delete his home directory
too.
But if this directory doesn't exist (like in this case) - you're about
to delete /dev/null as root.
If you go on, your system will be extremely unstable due to a missing /dev/null.
It is there again at the next boot, but this is not necessary.
** Affects: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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KDE user management makes system unusable when deleting user with non-existing
/home dir
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243794
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